Name
Digby Crunden Cleaver
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/12/1915
17
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Royal Flying Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HAZEBROUCK COMMUNAL CEMETERY
II. E. 5.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Much Hadham memorials
Shoreham-on-Sea, Kent
Pre War
Born on 28 Apr 1897 in London son of Howard Crunden and Annie Rebecca Cleaver. They were living at "Woodside," Much Hadham, Hertfordshire after Digby’s death. It is not yet know if he had any other connection to Much Hadham. Digby was reported to have been the first boy scout to have flown in an aeroplane.
Wartime Service
Trained at Military Flying School, Brooklands and achieved his certificate on 28 Aug 1915. He entered France on 23 Dec 1915 and was killed six days later while flying in action.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, “Lest We Forget – Much Hadham 1914-18” by Richard Maddams (Much Hadham Forge Museum)
