Private Charlie Cramp, 53257
- Batt - 21
- Unit - West Yorkshire Regiment
- Section -
- Date of Birth -
- Died - 05/04/1918
- Age - 19
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ContributeSource: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland. He was the son of Mr and Mrs George Cramp.
Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project. Coalville Times article - Friday May 10th, 1918
LOCAL CASUALTIES
Pte. C. Cramp (Shepshed) of the West Yorkshire Regiment, has died of wounds.
Research undertaken and submitted by Andy Murby 15/2/2018
Son of Mr and Mrs George Cramp, Ring Fence, Shepshed, he joined up on 13/01/1917 aged 17.
(Family tree on Ancestry, "https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/166601570/person/162264526592/facts?_phsrc=lVG10&_phstart=successSource")
05/03/1917 posted to the Leicestershire Regiment, no. 38283.
08/08/1917 transferred to the 19th Training Reserve Battalion at Brocton Camp, Staffordshire, as no. TR/6/2474.
(Information about Brocton, "http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/exhibit/chasecamps/default")
01/11/1917 transferred to the 52nd Durham Light Infantry, where he was trained as a 'rifle bomber'.
09/01/1918 transferred to the 21st Yorks Battalion (a service battalion) as no. 53257. Less than 3 weeks later he was wounded in action, on 06/04/1918 (NOT 5th), and he died from wounds later that day. He was buried in Athies Communal Cemetery Extension.
(Information from D Scorer, 07/06/23)
- Conflict - World War I
- Cause of death - DIED OF WOUNDS
- Burial Place - Athies Communal Cemetery Extension, M. 11., France
- Enlisted - Loughborough
- Other Memorials - Shepshed Oaks & Charley
- Unit - West Yorkshire Regiment
- Cause of death - DIED OF WOUNDS
- Burial Commemoration - Athies Com. Cem. Ext., France
- Born - Shepshed, Leicestershire
- Enlisted - Loughborough, Leicestershire
- Place of Residence - Ring Fence, Shepshed, Leicestershire, England
- Memorial - SHEPSHED MEM., LEICS
- Memorial - COUNCIL SCHOOL MEM., SHEPSHED, LEICS