Name
Herbert Crownshaw
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
731553
Royal Field Artillery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Herbert Crownshaw first appeared in the Leavesden Parish Records in July 1915 where he was listed “serving with HM Forces, on Government Work”. At the time he was working as an Attendant at the Leavesden Asylum and he was living at Adrian Road with his wife Grace and son, Bertram John, who had been baptised at Leavesden in February 1912.
Herbert was recorded for the first time in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in February 1917, at which point he was serving with the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA). In the January 1918 Parish Magazine Herbert was recorded serving with the Royal Field Artillery (RFA).
Herbert was listed in the Autumn 1918 and Spring 1919 Absent Voter Records, living at 36A Adrian Road, Abbots Langley, and serving as a Gunner with the 321st Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.
Herbert Crownshaw survived the War.
Additional Information
Possibly formely Royal Garrison Artillery
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
