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 (30/3/1895-1956), LIVED AT 3, WARRICK TERRACE, MERRICK STREET, HULL AND 14, CREMONE TERRACE. SOUTH PARADE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). THEY HAD ONE DAUGHTER, REBECCA, BORN ON 11/12/1915.
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 WIDOW REMARRIED AND BECAME MRS HOLMES.
HIS YOUNGER BROTHER, PRIVATE, ARTHUR CROWHURST, 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, WAS KILLED AT ARRAS, ON 23/04/1917, AGED 20.
