BORN HULL 1875. SCULCOATES. 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). EMPLOYED AS A COOPER.
HE MARRIED EMILY (BORN 20/3/1884). THEY LIVED AT 13, HILLS TERRACE, WEST PARADE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). THEY HAD FIVE CHILDREN, JOHN WILLIAM CROWTHER, ANNIE LOUISA, GEORGE ARTHUR, EMILY ALICE AND OLIVE BERTHA. ALL BORNN BETWEEN 1903-1915.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, AS, PRIVATE, 6042 NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. HE ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 09/09/1915. TRANSFERRED TO THE 21ST MACHINE GUN CORPS. PROMOTED TO LANCE CORPORAL. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 23/03/1918, AGED 43. HE LEFT HIS ARMY EFFECTS TO HIS WIDOW, EMILY.
HE HAD INHERITED £217 FROM HIS YOUNGER BROTHER, PRIVATE, JOHN JOSEPH CROWTHER, 8TH POST OFFICE RIFLES, WHO WAS KILLED ON THE SOMME, ON 15/09/1916, AGED 34. THEIR PARENTS HAD LOST TWO SON IN THE WAR AND BOTH DIED THEMSELVES IN 1919.
HIS WIDOW’S WEEKLY WAR PENSION OF 29/6 SHILLINGS, WAS NOT ISSUED UNTIL 25/11/1918 AND REDUCED BECAUSE THEIR FIRST TWO CHILDREN HAD SPENT TIME IN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS.
