Name
Ernest Enoch Crew
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/08/1918
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
22576
Royal Field Artillery
'C' Battery, 82nd Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DERNANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Plot VII, Row B, Grave 3.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, St James' Church Memorial, Watford Fields
Pre War
Son of Arthur Benjamin and Emily (nee HOLMES) CREW.
His parents married 8 November 1885 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster. Emily died 1933 aged 73; Benjamin died 1936 aged 75; both in the Bromley, Kent, district.
Ernest was born 21 June 1894 in Paddington, London, and baptised 1 August 1894 at St Mary’s, Paddington. He attended Tichbourne Street School, Paddington; then Alexandra School, Watford, from 12 April 1905 to 15 November 1906.
On the 1901 Census, aged 6 he lived in Paddington, with his parents and five siblings. On the 1911 Census, a butcher’s errand boy aged 16, he lived in London N.W.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Pinner, Middx; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 24 July 1915, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
There is an article about and a Death announcement for Ernest in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 14 September 1918. Unfortunately, Ernest’s Service record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two Bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
