Name
Walter Arthur Crabb
1899
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/04/1918
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/57767
Middlesex Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 60 and 61.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials (*1) Holy Trinity Church War Memorial, Hounslow (possibly lost in WW2)
Pre War
Walter Arthur Crabb was born in Islington, London in 1899, the son of Henry and Ella Crabb and was baptised at St Catherine's Church, Leyton on 8 January 1902.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 5 Dunton Terrace, Leyton, Essex, where his father was working as a builder's timekeeper. They had moved to Cambridge Road, Stansted, Essex by 1911. Walter was then an 11 year old scholar and his father was working as a builder's clerk.
N.B. His father had been born in Bishops Stortford.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hounslow, Middlesex and joined the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex) Regiment, serving with the 2nd Battalion.
Walter was killed in action on 24 April 1918. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £5 and pay owing of £7 17s 9d. His mother received a pension of 5 shillings a week. Mother then living at 24 Albert Road, Hounslow, father later lived at 59 Barrack Road, Hounslow
*1 Walter is also commemorated on a memorial stone in Bishop's Stortford Old Cemetery. The inscription is difficult to read,
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
