074 of 876 Lt Hugh Anthony Robert Crookham 1st Battalion Cambridgeshire Regiment Died 03rd August 1915 aged 22

Son of Rev W.T.R. Crookham and Beatrice Crookham of The Vicarage Wisbech, Anthony was born 30th August 1893 in Brighton

Scholar of Jesus College Cambridge B.A. 1915 and was a member of the Cambridge University OTC

He was severely wounded about midnight on 2nd July. The enemy bombarded the trench with rifle grenades and one hit inside and hit him and 3 others, he sustained a fractured skull. He had only been out there for seven nights.  He was moved to the 82nd Brigade Ambulance where the operation of Trepanning was performed. He died a month later

Lt Anthony Robert Crookham is remembered with honour at Le Treport Military Cemetery

Transcript from Isle of Ely and Wisbech Advertiser

Leiut A. Crookham seriously wounded, hit By a Rifle Grenade

News has been received by Mrs Crookham of the Vicarage Wisbech that her son Leiut Crookham of the 1st Cambridgeshire Regiment has been severely wounded.

It happened about midnight on 2nd July. The enemy bombarded the trench with rifle grenades and one hit inside and hit him and 3 others.  He sustained a fractured skull.  He had only been out there a week, this was his seventh night in the firing trench when it happened.

1st Cambs Officer Dies of Wounds

The war office announces that Lt H. A. R. Crookham of the 1st Cambs Regiment has died of wounds while fighting with the British Expeditionary Force.

Keith Wainwright