Private William Crowder

Army Number: 71790

Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Son of George and Sarah Crowder, of Newgate Lane, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Husband of Violet Crowder, of 55, Shipmans Court, Pelham Street, Mansfield. He was a coal carter prior to enlisting at Derby. He was killed in action, 16th September 1917, aged 25, in the British attack near Zillebeke, near Ypres, Belgium.

Commemorated: Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. Panel 99 to 102 and 162 to 162A.

Private William Crowder is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Peter’s Church War Memorial, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.