Detail victim

Name
Initials
Vorname
Place of birth Boston
Land Lincolnshire, England
Family Son of Andrew and Ruth Crick, of 12, Hartley St., Boston, Lincs; three sisters, Mary, Ruth and Eva Lucy; two brothers: Charles, served in Gloucestershire Regiment, captured and partly gassed but survived (died of chronic bronchitis); Tom, served in war in Guards but may not have gone on active service.
Profession Builder
Extra info Buried by Abbé Tiberghien

Place & date of enlistment 1 May 1908, Boston
Service number 812
Rank Serjeant
Regiment and unit 1st/4th Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment
Other data related to military career Volunteered for overseas service in August 1914. Proceeded with the Boston Company as part of the battalion in the 46th Division to Belgium in March 1915; slightly wounded in the eye when a German sniper hit the top of the trench periscope he was using; platoon sergeant of n°1 Platoon, A Company;

Wounded 30 September, 49-50 trenches, Zillebeke; whizz-bang shell and bombardment
Type of wounds Died of shell wounds in the lower abdomen, in n°10 CCS
Died at the age of 27
Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery I - B - 1A