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 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.
First name:
WILLIAM SEDDON
Military Number:
71838
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
23/03/1918
Place died:
Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
43
9 AMY TERRACE, FERRIES STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
