GEORGE CRICKMORE

Born: 1880, Ipswich.

Died: 14th January 1915; age: 34; Died of Wounds – head wounds received in action – at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London.

Enlistment Location: Ipswich.

Rank: Private; Service Number: 319237

Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 2nd Battalion.

Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.

Grave Reference:

N.172816.

Brompton Cemetery,

West London.

Brother to WILLIAM CRICKMORE.

CENSUS

1881   Albert Street, Ipswich.

George was 10 months old and living with his parents & siblings.

William Crickmore, 31, a General Porter – Ships, born Ipswich.

Susan Crickmore (nee Cannell), 28, born Ipswich.

Lucy Crickmore, 10, born Ipswich.

William Crickmore, 8, born Ipswich.

Alfred Crickmore, 7, born Ipswich.

Henry Crickmore, 5, born Ipswich.

Alfred Crickmore, 2, born Ipswich.

1891   The Boys Home, Regent’s Park Road, St. Pancras, London.

George was 10 years old and an Inmate at the Certified Industrial School.

1911   10, New Street, Ipswich.

George was 32 years old, a Dock Labourer. He was 1 of 30 Lodgers.

George’s father, William Crickmore died 1892, Ipswich.

Soldiers’ Effects to Susan Crickmore – mother, Henry Crickmore & John Crickmore – brothers, and Lucy L. Bailey & Catherine Barwick – sisters.

George & William’s 63 year old sister, Catherine Barwick, wife of Samuel Alfred Clifford Barwick, of 67, Finland Road, Lewisham, London, was 1 of 34 people killed on the 2nd February 1945 when at 08:22am, a V2 rocket fell in the gardens between Finland Road, and Revelon Road. http://www.flyingbombsandrockets.com/V1_summary_se4.html

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