Private Albert Edward Crawley

Army Number: 71084

Battalion: 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Henry and Ellen Crawley, of 19, Mill Street, Apsley End, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. He was a farmhand prior to enlisting at Hemel Hempstead. He was killed in action, 20th October 1916, age 19, during the German attack on the British line near Martinsart Wood, During the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Private Albert Edward Crawley is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. John’s Church War Memorial, BVoxmoor, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.