Leatherhead War Memorials : Reginald G Crocker

Town Memorial P1.R4.C2 * the Town Memorial is incorrect

Cpl
Reginald G. Crocker
15th Royal Fusiliers, [*actually 1st/8th Bn., Middlesex Regiment]
Calais
Nov 7 1919 [* actually Dec 7 1918 ]

Taken Not Given, Liam Sumption, L&DLHS
A scrutiny of the Fusiliers and men of the London Regiment listed among Soldiers who died in the Great War does not reveal Reginald Crocker and certainly not in the 15th Bn., Royal Fusiliers.

The Parish Magazine of January 1919 states:
"Cpl R.G. Crocker, wounded in action Nov 7th, died in hospital in France, Dec 7th 1918." ¹

Sources
1. Parish Magazine of St Mary & St Nicholas , Leatherhead, January 1919 issue

The CWGC database reveals why Liam Sumption could not trace RG Crocker - the Town Memorial has both his unit and the date of death wrong:

Name: CROCKER, R G
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment: Middlesex Regiment
Unit Text: 1st/8th Bn.
Date of Death: 07/12/1918
Service No: 52521
Grave/Memorial Reference: VII. B. 7A.
Cemetery: LES BARAQUES MILITARY CEMETERY, SANGATTE

He is listed in the Chapel of Remembrance in the Parish Church (and correctly as died Dec 1918).
The Church Lads Brigade Tryptich in All Saints Church shows a Robert Crocker.
The RBL Roll of Honour lists him, but in the incorrect unit, as on the Town Memorial.

He is not listed in the May 1915 issue of Leatherhead Parish Magazine among those serving.

Links
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry
Middlesex Regiment history
Middlesex Regiment 1914-18

the website editor would like to add further information on this casualty
e.g. a photo of him, of his grave
and of any recollections within his family

page last updated 15 Aug 2004