Name
Harold Henry Crawley
22 May 1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/07/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Able Seaman
J/29432
Royal Navy
H.M.S. "Carnarvon."
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MONTREAL (MOUNT ROYAL) CEMETERY
Sailors Mem. Sect. D. 14.
Canada
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Tabernacle Baptist Church Memorial, St Albans (now in Marshallwick)
Pre War
Son of Mrs. M. Crawley, of 23, Inkerman Rd., St. Albans, Herts, England.
Biography
Harold Henry Crawley, registered as Harold Henry Hull was
born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, 22 May 1896 to William Harold Crawley (B:
1858) and Minnie Hull (B: 1867). Although there appears to be no marriage for
Harold’s parents, he and all his siblings are registered in the surname of Hull
but appear in all other records with the surname of Crawley.
In 1901 the family are living at 23 Inkerman Road. Father
William is a bricklayer. Harold lives with his sisters Florence 6, May Evelyn 2,
Maud 7 months and brother Charles William 3, named as Charley.
The family are still at 23 Inkerman Road and there are four
more children, Arthur 9, Albert Edward 8, Ethel 3 and Mabel 1. Father is still
a bricklayer and Harold is a baker’s boy.
St Albans Tabernacle archives has all the Crawley children as
regular attenders of the Sunday afternoon Sunday School.
Harold joins the Royal Navy 22 May 1914 at Chatham for a
period of engagement of 12 years, as a Boy Class 2. He has brown hair, blue
eyes and is of fair complexion, he has two scars on his left leg and a tattoo
on his right forearm.
His first ship is the HMS Vivid, transferring to the HMS
Carnarvon as a Boy Class 1 on 29 Apr 1914 and becoming an Ordinary Seaman 15
July 1914 and Able Seaman J29432, 1 January 1915.
Harold died of disease on 27 July 1915 at the Montreal
General Hospital, Canada and is remembered at the Mount Royal Cemetery Sailor
Lot Section D grave no 393.
Acknowledgments
Helen Little
Jonty Wild
