Name
Murvyn Cecil Crook
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/10/1917
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
252485
London Regiment *1
2nd/3rd (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 148 to 150.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Christ Church Memorial, Watford
Pre War
Son of Mary Ann (nee LISTER) and the late George Charles CROOK; husband of Mabel Florence (nee HEATH) CROOK.
His parents married 11 February 1872 in Staplefield, Sussex. George died 6 April 1901 in Leighton Buzzard, Beds, aged 56; Mary died 1924 in Watford aged 71, and was buried 20 March in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford.
Mervin was born 1889 in Leighton Buzzard, and married 1916 in the Hammersmith, London, district; they had one child. He resided in Watford.
On the 1891 Census, aged 2 he lived in Leighton Buzzard, with his parents and 11 siblings. On the 1901 Census, aged 12 he still lived in Leighton Buzzard, with his parents and 11 siblings. On the 1911 Census, a baker aged 22, he was a boarder in South Ealing, Middx.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Shepherd’s Bush, London, and was formerly Private 5500 3rd (City of London) Battalion London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers). He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was presumed killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Mervin’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
*1 Probably more correctly London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers).
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
