GEORGE ALEXANDER CROOK

RANK: Apprentice.

REGIMENT: S.S. "Manx Isles,"Mercantile Marine.

BORN:

GAVE HIS LIFE: 30/03/1918.

AGED:

CEMETERY: Cromerty Cemetery Scotland 40 miles from Inverness.

PANEL: E. North-East. 12

LEEDS BOYS MODERN: 1914-1917.

George was possibly born after the 1901 census having attending Leeds Boys Modern between 1914-and 1917 which would make him 16 when he left school.

George joined the Leeds Boys Modern scout troup in 1914 and was chosen as a patrol leader, he excelled in signalling and a school report if the time states

" George was smart steady and always reliable and the influance on his class mates was excellent."

This skill in signalling led to an appointment on a patrol ship in the North Sea, the SS Manx Isles a steamship used to carry Molases and built in 1905 finally scrapped in Holland after the war.

unfortunatly George contracted pneumonia and passed away in March 1918 at Cromarty Hospital Scotland.