BORN HULL 1895. SON OF MATTHEW HENRY CRANSWICK (1860-1928) & THE LATE KATE WRIGHT (1863-1909), OF 14 ROXBURGH STREET, PRINCES AVENUE, HULL. THIS WAS HIS 1918 ABSENT VOTERS ADDRESS. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. HIS BROTHER, CAPTAIN, WILLIAM CRANSWICK, EYR, LIVED AT THE SAME ADDRESS AND 6 VINE TERRACE, NORWOOD STREET, HULL. MATHEW ENLISTED HULL AND WAS KILLED AT POZIERES, ON 5/05/1918, AGED 23. HIS YOUNGER BROTHER, BOY 2ND CLASS, CHARLES CRANSWICK, ROYAL NAVY, DIED ON 03/11/1918, AGED JUST 15, AND IS BURIED IN HULL WESTERN CEMETERY.
First name:
MATTHEW HENRY
Regiment:
Military Number:
200495
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
05/05/1918
Place died:
Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
23
