BORN HULL 1892. ELDEST SON OF JAMES ROBERT CROWHURST (1854-1925) & REBECCA HOE (1866-1939), OF 4 BELLE VUE TERRACE, ALEXANDRA STREET, HULL. SON OF A SEAMAN. HE WORKED AS A RAILWAY PORTER. HE MARRIED EVA CARTER, IN HULL, IN SEPTEMBER 1914. HIS WIFE EVA CROWHURST (1895-1956) LIVED AT 3 WARRICK TERRACE, MERRICK STREET, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, SERVED AS PRIVATE, 44577, 9TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. DIED OF WOUNDS, AT POPERINGE, ON 20/04/1918, AGED 26. HE IS BURIED AT HARINGHE (BANDAGHEM) MILITARY CEMETERY
HIS YOUNGER BROTHER, PRIVATE, ARTHUR CROWHURST, 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, WAS KILLED AT ARRAS, ON 23/04/1917, AGED 20.
First name:
JAMES
Military Number:
44577
Rank:
Private
Date Died
20/04/1918
Place died:
Haringhe (Bandaghem) Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
26
