Name |
Walter Henry CROFT |
Rank/Number |
Corporal / 7909 |
Regiment/Unit |
Norfolk Regiment / 2nd Battalion |
Enlisted |
Hemel Hempstead, Herts |
Age/Date of death |
27 / 31 Aug 1916 |
How died/Theatre of war |
Died / Mesopotamia |
Residence at death |
|
Cemetery |
Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq |
Grave Reference |
XXI.R.37 |
Location of memorial |
Prestwood - not on War Memorial |
Date/Place of birth |
Sep qtr 1889 / Brockhampton, Dorset |
Date/Place of baptism |
|
Occupation of Casualty |
regular soldier |
Parents/Occupation |
William & Martha Ann Croft nee Baker / coachman |
Parents' Address |
Long View, Addision Rd, Salisbury Green, Southampton |
Wife |
|
Wife's Address |
|
Notes |
1911: India. Prisoner at Kut. Brother of William Alfred whose name is on the Prestwood War Memorial. Parents lived in Prestwood in 1916 |