Name
George Crichton
1884
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/02/1915
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
20430
Northumberland Fusiliers
13th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TRING CEMETERY
E. 136.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Tring memorials
Pre War
George Crichton was born in Dundee in 1884 to David Crichton, plumber, and Margaret (nee Morrison).
On the 1891 Census the family of parents, George, Mary (born 1889) and Margaret (born 1890) were living at 6, Beck Street, Dundee, Forfar.
On the 1901 Census the family of parents (David was a water inspector), George (apprentice Plumber), Mary (Jute Weaver), Margaret, Henry (born 1898) and Davina (born 1901) were living at 5, Annfield Row, Dundee, Forfar.
On the 1911 Census George was a coal miner and and a lodger with the Scott family of John, wife Eliza Jane, Annie Scott (daughter), Charles Ronald Scott (grandson) and John Bridges (nephew) at North Biddick, Falfield,
Wartime Service
No Service Record was found for George who had enlisted not long after the outbreak of the Great War as Private 20430 in the Northumberland Fusliers He was posted to 11th (Service) Battalion, part of 62 Brigade, 21st Division.
While still in training in the Tring Area George fell ill and died on 10 Feb 1915 presumably in Tring War Hospitals.
Additional Information
No War Gratuity was admissible (UK service only) and arrears of 4 8s 4d was shared by his father and siblings, Henry, Mary, Margaret and Davina.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
