Name
Charles Noel Crawford
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/04/1916
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Northamptonshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. PATRICK'S CEMETERY, LOOS
III. J. 13.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 23 Nov 1895 in Northampton son of James Adair (Indian Civil Service) and Maud (Foster) Crawford. Educated at Haileybury College 1910-13 and obtained a scholarship to Magdalene College, Cambridge which he did not take up. He was unmarried.
Wartime Service
Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant 10th Reserve Cavalry on 12 Nov 1914 and trained with them at the Curragh Camp. He later transferred to the Northamptonshire Regiment and entered France on 9 Mar 1916. He was killed in action by a shell while in the firing line near Loos.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
