Name
Eustace Crawley (MM)
10 April 1868
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/11/1914
46
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Military Medal
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 5
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Ind. Memorial, Ayot St Lawrence (Palladian) Church, Harrow School Roll of Honour, Trinity College, Cambridge World War 1 War memorial
Pre War
Eustace Crawley was born on 10 April 1868 in Highgate, London, the fourth son of George Baden Crawley and Eliza Inez Crawley (nee Hulbert) and baptised at St Michael, Highgate, Camden on 10 May 1868. The family were said to be living at Fitzroy House, Highgate at that time.
On the 1871 Census the family were living at 103 Harley Street, London. His father was a Contractor and the family of 7 were looked after by 13 staff. At age 12 on the 1881 Census he was a pupil at Walton Lodge at Walton in Gordano, Somerset followed by Harrow School, where he was a prolific sportsman.
He continued his education at Trinity College, Cambridge before joining the 12th Lancers in 1889, and he appears on the 1891 Census in Cavalry Barracks at Hulme in Lancashire.
He had a distinguished career in the army, during which he was mentioned in despatches, took part in the Boer War & was Deputy Asst Adj. General in India from 1909 to 1913, (Full details in De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour).
He married Lady Violet Ella Finch, daughter of the Earl of Aylesford, on 14 December 1904 at St Luke, Chelsea. She later lived at 5 Lancaster Gate Terrace, London.
Wartime Service
He went to France in August 1914 and was killed instantaneously by a shell near Wytschaete, West-Vlaanderen, near Messines in Belgium on 2 November 1914.
He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
Additional Information
Memorial Plaque erected by "his devoted sister Inez Cavan & his lifelong friend Rudolph Lambart 10th Earl of Cavan" (who is buried in a family grave at Ayot St Lawrence old church).
Probate granted to Henry Ernest Crawley on 23 May 1915. Effects £10413 17s 3d. Address given as Sunninghill Thorpe, Norwich. His executors received a war gratuity of £60 and pay owing of £35 10s 6d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
www.harrowschool-ww1.org.uk
