Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Book. His conduct was brilliant in the extreme; it was his coolness that got us out of it. I cannot express his kindness, for on the retreat I have seen him carrying the men's rifles. He would give us chocolates and cigarettes, or whatever he had he would give to any one. I cannot speak too highly of him." Numerous other letters refer to him in like terms of admiration and respect. [Illustration: =Charles Edward Crane.=] =CRASCALL, COULSON HENRY=, A. B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2577), 177293, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CRAVEN, EDWARD=, Stoker. 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7125), S.S. 101858, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CRAVEN, THOMAS=, Deckhand, R.N.R., 1386 D.A., Royal Naval Reserve; _b._ Cleckheaton, co. York, 26 Feb. 1872; educ. Church Schools, Liversedge, co. York; was in the employ of Messrs. Hillyer, of Hull; joined the Royal Naval Reserve at the outbreak of war, and was drowned in the North Sea by falling overboard during a gale, while surveying on H.M. armed trawler Viola in the North Sea, 7 Nov. 1914. He was buried with naval honours at Lerwick; _unm._ =CRAVEN, THOMAS=, Stoker, P.O. (R.F.R., A. 1917/), 154699, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CRAWFORD, ALEXANDER PRATT=, Private, No. 7049, 1st Battn. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, 2nd _s._ of Charles Crawford, of Leith, Wine and Spirit Merchant, by his wife, Agnes Lumsden (11, Annfield, Newhaven), dau. of the late Peter Seton, of Edinburgh; _b._ Leith, 17 Feb. 1887; educ. at Trinity Academy, Leith; enlisted 29 Sept. 1904, and was killed in action at the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914; _unm._ =CRAWFORD, EDWARD=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 7th surviving and yst. twin _s._ of the late Robert Crawford, of Stonewold, Ballyshannon, C.E., D.L., Professor of Engineering in Trinity College, Dublin, 1882-87, by his second wife, Anna, dau. of the late Thomas Troubridge Stubbs, of Ballyshannon; _b._ Stonewold, Ballyshannon, co. Donegal, 23 Nov. 1880; educ. Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, and Cheltenham College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 4th (now the 3rd) Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 30 April, 1906, and promoted Lieut. 14 July, 1908. He went to the Front, Oct. 1914. and was attached to the 2nd Battn. Royal Irish Rifles in Flanders; he was invalided home in Dec. 1914, having contracted frostbite in the trenches. On recovery he again went to the Front, where he was attached to the 2nd Battn. Royal Irish Regt., and died at the British Hospital, Wimereux, France, 27 May, 1915, as the result of gas poisoning and wounds received while in action about 25 May. He was buried in the cemetery at Wimereux; _unm._ [Illustration: =Edward Crawford.=] =CRAWFORD, HUGH=, A.B. (R.F.R. B., 10852), S.S. 2908, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =CRAWFORD, RICHARD GILPIN=, Lieut., Princess Patricia's Canadian L.I., _s._ and only child of William C. Crawford, of Tilbury, Kent co., Ontario, President of the Windsor, Essex and Lake Shore Railway, a member of the Municipal Council of Tilbury for 23 years and Chairman of the Council for 13 years, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Richard Thompson Gilpin, of St. Mary's, Ontario; _b._ Tilbury, 12 Jan. 1892; educ. Common and High School in Tilbury, Upper Canada College, Toronto, and The Royal Military College, Kingston, being a Graduate there. He joined the 1st Canadian Contingent in Aug. 1914; left with it for England in Sept. following, and after being attached to the 9th Battn. at Salisbury, England, proceeded to France, 25 March, 1915, and was transferred to Princess Patricia's Canadian L.I. He was twice wounded in the engagement at Bellewarde Lake, 8 May, 1915, and died in the Clearing Hospital at 2 p.m. the day following. He was buried at Bailleul, France; _unm._ Lieut. Crawford was recommended for distinguished service in the field by Major-Gen. Snow, commanding 27th Division, Canadian L.I., on account of his bravery in remaining under a very heavy shell and rifle fire to dig out some of his comrades from under their machine guns. The officer commanding Princess Patricia's Canadian L.I. (Hugh L. Niven) wrote to his father: "Lieut. Crawford was wounded early in the morning of 8 May at Bellewarde Lake by a piece of high explosive shell that lit in the trench where he was attending to his duties. He was carried by four of the men of his company, who were exposed to heavy shell and machine gun fire, to a dug-out some 100 yards in rear. He was there properly bandaged by the medical orderlies and made comfortable. About noon the same day a large high explosive shell fell on the dug-out and Lieut. Crawford was again wounded, this time on his right foot. He was got out of this dug-out at once and taken to another one to the left, and was taken to our dressing station at dusk by the stretcher-bearers, and sent on from there in an ambulance to the closest hospital about 9 miles away, and he died there from his wounds. I saw a great deal of Lieut. Crawford, and I say in all sincerity that this regt. lost one of its most promising officers. His bravery was most remarkable, and his officers and men reported this to me on several occasions. He did not know what it was to be nervous even under the heaviest shell fire, and on the morning of 4 May, when they were shelling his trench, he dug out the machine gun section which were completely buried by a shell, and although several fell within 10 feet of him he never even noticed them, but continued digging as if he were miles away from harm. I was with him at the time, and it was worth while to listen to the men he helped to rescue telling him what they thought of his action. This is only one of many cases where he displayed the greatest gallantry. In fact, he was idolised by his men, and the whole regt. mourns one of the bravest soldiers that ever lived. When he was so seriously wounded he objected to any one making a fuss over him, and was always telling the orderlies to attend to some one else, and, as he was going away, he said he would be back right away, just as soon as he could get out of the hospital." [Illustration: =Richard Gilpin Crawford.=] =CRAWFORD, WILLIAM JOHN=, Sergt., No. 7791, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of William Frederick Crawford, Chintz Glazer; _b._ Camden Town, 8 March, 1889; enlisted 9 April, 1908; served in Egypt, 6 Jan. 1909, to 11 March, 1911, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; was wounded at Landrecies in Aug. 1914, and invalided home, returning to the Front, 7 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Cambrin, 8 July, 1915, by a rifle grenade. He _m._ at Clapton, 7 March, 1915, Clara Annie (94, Dunlace Road, Clapton, London), dau. of Alfred Leonard Hughes, of London; _s.p._ [Illustration: =William John Crawford.=] =CRAWHALL, FRITZ PORTMORE=, 2nd Lieut., 6th Battn. King's Royal Rifle Corps, yr. _s._ of the Rev. Edmund Isaac Laroche Crawhall, Vica |