Crossley, Fred –

Son of Edmund and Rachel Hannah Crossley, of 167, Crescent Road, Great Lever, Bolton, Lancashire. Killed by a splinter from a bomb dropped by an aeroplane.

Personal details

  • Surname: Crossley
  • Forename: Fred
  • Date of birth: Not known
  • Birth place: Bolton, Lancashire
  • Place of residence: Great Lever, Lancashire
  • Gender: Male
  • Age of death: 19
  • Place of death: Not known
  • Date of death: August 19th, 1917
  • Casualty type: Not known

Service details

  • Rank: Gunner
  • Unit: 349th Siege Battery.
  • Service number: 123741
  • Regiment: Not known
  • Enlistment date: Not known
  • Enlistment location: Bolton, Lancashire
  • Conflict: Not known

Decorations

  • Service medals: V / BW
  • Silver War badge: Not known
  • Awards: Not known

Memorials

  • CWGC Memorial: Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
  • CWGC reference: I. J. 6.

Local newspaper entries

  • Bolton Journal and Guardian entries: 07/09/1917 07/12/1917
  • Bolton Journal and Guardian references: 4g/6d* S2*
  • Farnworth and Worsley Journal entries: 07/09/1917 28/12/1917

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