BORN HULL 1882. SON OF JOHN AKAM CROWTHER (1847-1919) & HARRIET SEDDON (1848-1919), OF 9 AMY TERRACE, AND 5 TENNYSON AVENUE, FERRIES STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A SORTING CLERK, FOR THE POST OFFICE (1911 CENSUS) AND A HULL POSTMAN. 14, DANSOM LANE, HULL, WAS HIS PROBATE ADDRESS.
HE ENLISTED IN LONDON. JOINING THE 8TH CITY OF LONDON REGIMENT (POST OFFICE RIFLES). HE WAS KILLED AT THE SOMME, ON 15/09/1916, AGED 34. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
BOTH HIS PARENTS DIED IN 1919. £217 WAS LEFT IN HIS WILL TO HIS BROTHER, LANCE CORPORAL, WILLIAM SEDDON CROWTHER, MACHINE GUN CORPS, WHO WAS HIMSELF KILLED IN ACTION, ON 23/03/1918, AGED 43.
NOTE J CROWHURST IS LISTED ON THE SCULCOATES LANE ROLL OF HONOUR.
Thank you to David Bean, for information sent on 22/08/2022.
