Sergeant Charles William Crawley

Army Number: 208

Battalion: 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Awards: D.C.M. (Distinguished Conduct Medal)

Born at Boston, Lincolnshire. Son of Charles Henry and Mary Crawley. Husband of Rebecca Ann Crawley, of 4, Dunkirk Road, Old Lenton, Nottingham. He was a tailor prior to enlisting on 28th April 1908. He was promoted to Sergeant on 21st April 1913 and went to France on 28th February 1915. He was awarded the D.C.M. London Gazette 9th October 1915: For conspicuous gallantry at Sanctuary Wood near Ypres on the night of 30th-31st July 1915, when, with the assistance of four others, he brought in over 20 wounded men of another Regiment and several of his own under artillery and rifle fire. These wounded men were lying out in front of a new trench which had been dug during the night. He was killed in action, 13th October 1915, aged 38, during the attack on Fosse 8 near Vermelles.

Commemorated: Loos Memorial, France. Panel 87 to 89.

Sergeant Charles William Crawley is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Lenton War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.