HORACE CRAWFORD

RANK: Private.

SERVICE NUMBER: 10768.

REGIMENT: 6th Bn Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.

BORN: Roundhay Leeds.

ENLISTED: London.

GAVE HIS LIFE: 18/08/1916.

AGED: 36.

CEMETERY: Tyne Cot Memorial.

PANEL:42 to 47 and 162.

Shown as Horace on the above photograph and the details i have research from in 1919 however all the details given at the time corospond with Henry crawford.

Henry was the son of John Born Scotland 1840 and Emily Born Leeds 1842 he had a elder brother John who served in the 2nd Bn West Yorkshire Regiment throughout the 1890's. The family lived at inglewood Roundhay.

Henry became an engine fitter after leaving leeds Boys until he joined up in August 1914 at London.

Both the CWGC site and Those Who Died records show Henry joining up under the name Henry and that he was residing in Bilbao Spain at the time he joined up in 1914.

Henry served in the Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry being posted to France in April 1915, coming home on one weeks leave in May 1916.

It was reported at the time that horace gave his life fighting at the Battle for Delville Wood on the 18th August 1916.