Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookut. Leslie Liddell, and two men. During the evening Capt. Wheatley's foot went very sore, so I took his place. Just before we left Leslie asked to be included in the party.... We got about 120 yards out from our trench quite easily. As the grass was very dry I then decided to go on alone with a man for about 40 yards more. I left Leslie and Liddell to guard our left flank. We were just about to return to them when we heard revolver shots, and a German patrol in full flight. Unfortunately. this was not the only patrol out, and another German patrol threw a bomb which gave Leslie his death wound. There was naturally some trouble to get him back to the lines, but he was carried in by a stretcher party, covered by a strong party of men, but he was dead before the lines were reached. The Doctor said that nothing could have saved him, and that he must have been unconscious almost from the first. He was buried the same day in the corner of a field, a quarter of a mile behind the firing line, where the officers and men of the 5th and 7th Duke's have been buried, and lies near to his old school friend, 2nd Lieut. L. M. Tetlow. Ten officers and 20 men of his own company attended to the simple ceremony which marks these occasions, together with a number of men of his old A Coy., and Col. Wilson officiated at the service.... As my sub. in old C Coy., and as a platoon commander in D Coy., he has always been a splendid and devoted officer." The D.C.M. was afterwards conferred on Sergt. Convoy for this act, he being in charge of the stretcher bearers. [Illustration: =Leslie Taylor Crowther.=] =CROXSON, HENRY THOMAS=, 1st Class Ship's Corpl., No. 350161, H.M.S. Formidable, _s._ of the late Jonathan Croxson, of Ipswich; _b._ Ipswich, 31 Dec. 1869; educ. there; entered the Navy, 31 July, 1888, and was lost on H.M.S. Formidable, 1 Jan. 1915. He received the Long Service and Good Conduct medal, 27 Nov. 1903. He _m._ at St. Matthew's Church, Ipswich, 26 Oct. 1896, Mary Ann (156, Cauldwell Hall Road, Ipswich), dau. of John Hindle, of Ipswich, and had one dau.: Ethel May, _b._ 23 Feb. 1898. [Illustration: =Henry Thomas Croxson.=] =CROZIER, JAMES CYRIL BAPTIST=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, only _s._ of the late Rev. Henry Wilcocks Crozier, Vicar of St. Matthew's, Stockport, M.A. (T.C.D.), by his wife, Susan Sinclair, dau. of James Spence, J.P., Birkenhead, and gdson. of the Rev. Baptist Barton Crozier, of Rockview House, Ballyhaise, co. Cavan, B.A.; _b._ Bowden, co. Chester, 24 Oct. 1890; educ. Loretto School, Edinburgh, leaving there for Edinburgh University, where he studied medicine for two years. He was gazetted to the 3rd Royal Scots (Special Reserve), 10 July, 1912, from which regt. he was transferred to the 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, 10 June, 1914, and was killed in action during the retreat from Mons, near Etreux, 27 Aug. 1914; _unm._ In a letter to Archbishop Crozier, Primate of All Ireland, Capt. H. S. Jervis (a prisoner in Germany) described in detail the trying day through which the regt. passed on 27 Aug., being eventually cut off from the main body, and proceeded: "B Coy. extended at once, and an attack on the enemy's position commenced. Your nephew was on the left--or east--of the attacking company, and was very much to the fore; a part of A Coy. extended the line eastwards, continued by my men (D Coy.) The enemy was holding a railway cutting in front of us, so D Coy. tried to rush this, the remainder of the men in that part of the field helping with rifle fire. Owing to lack of cover all my men in this part of the field save two were shot down before the hedge was reached, and the attempt failed. Crozier pushed on ahead of his men, clambered out of a hollow lane which he had just reached, and recklessly exposing himself in the open, shouted out, 'There they are; come on, men,' at the same time pointing out the enemy. As he ceased speaking he fell, killed instantaneously by a bullet through the body. It was noticed that he never moved once he fell. It is, therefore, a sad consolation to know that his death was painless, and he died with words on his lips which any of his brother officers would have been proud to be their last also." [Illustration: =James Cyril B. Crozier=] =CROZIER, WILLIAM KERR=, L.-Corpl., No. 9576, Machine Gun Section 2nd. Battn. Royal Scots, eldest _s._ of the late Walter Wright Crozier, by his wife, Robina (13, Tolbooth Wynd, Leith), dau. of the late William Kerr, of Leith; _b._ Portobello, 22 March, 1887; educ. Couper Street School there; enlisted 1905; served three years with the Colours, then passed into the Reserve, and worked as a Plaiter's Labourer; rejoined on mobilisation 4 Aug. 1914; went to France Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; _unm._ Sergt. C. Hiles wrote: "When we charged the Germans he was in charge of a machine gun team. His gun was put out of action and poor Will came back to me for another gun. He had to cover over 600 yards of ground beaten by murderous shell and rifle fire, for this act he has been recommended for the D.C.M. After getting his gun he went back to the trenches we had captured from the Germans. Just as he was about to enter the trenches he got wounded. He got his gun in action, and when he was found he was beside my gun. He was a good soldier and a very promising non-commissioned officer, and had he lived he would probably have been promoted." =CRUIKSHANKS, ALEXANDER=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 12869, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CRUISE, PETER=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111533 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CULLINAN, ROBERT HORNIDGE=, B.A., Barrister-at-Law, Capt., 7th Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, 2nd surviving _s._ of John Cullinan, of 6, Bindon Street, Ennis, Solicitor, by his wife, Martha Frances, dau. of the Rev. Francis Faris, Rector of Dovena, co. Wicklow; _b._ Ennis, co. Clare, 9 Aug. 1881; educ. Tipperary Grammar School, and having obtained Senior Erasmus Smith Exhibition, entered Trinity College, Dublin, in Oct. 1899. Here he gained numerous honours and prizes in History and Political Science and Logic, and obtained on leaving a Senior Moderatorship with gold medal for History and Political Science. He was called to the Irish Bar in Trinity Term, 1904, and was a member of the Munster Circuit. On the outbreak of war he offered his services and secured a commission in Sept., being gazetted Lieut. to the 7th Munsters, 18 Nov. 1914, and as Tempy. (afterwards confirmed) Capt. 27 Feb. He was killed in action after the landing at Suvla Bay, 8 Aug. 1915; _unm._ Major Drage, commanding C Coy., wrote: "Capt. Cullinan, C Coy., with D on its left, and the 6th Munsters on the right of it, had to advance early on Saturday afternoon along, below and parallel to a high ridge, on which were many skilful Turkish snipers. Your son, on the 7th, commanded the first line of C Coy., and went |