Private Charles Henry Cripps

Army Number: 307257

Battalion: 2/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Woolworth, Surrey and was the son of Henry Cripps. He lived at Peckham, Surrey. He enlisted at Camberwell, Surrey and was killed in action, 7th April 1917, during the attack at Le Verguier, northwest of Saint Quentin, France.

Buried: Vadencourt British Cemetery, Maissemy, France. Plot 3. Row A. Grave 37.

Vadencourt British Cemetery, Maissemy, France.
Private Charles Henry Cripps
Photograph of headstone kindly supplied by Barry Sisson.