Arthur Edward Crossman
Memorial: Yate - St Mary's Church Lych Gate
Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment
Medals: 1914–15 Star, British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Company Serjeant Major 14864
Parents: William J and Isabel Crossman
Marital status: Married
Home address: Station Road, Yate, Bristol
Pre-war occupation: Cutter’s assistant in 1911
Date of birth: 1887
Place of birth: Burnham, Somerset
Date of death: 25/08/1918
Buried/Commemorated at: Queens Cemetery (Ref. III. E. 14.), Bucquoy, France
Age: 31
Further information:
Arthur Edward was the son of William and Isabel Crossman of Bridgewater. His father was a market gardener and he was born in Somerset, there were four children, Maurice, Sidney, Frederick and Arthur
Arthur was living in Station Road, Yate in 1911 and he was married to Edith Vickery on the 10th April 1915. Arthur enlisted in the Gloucestershire Regiment in Bristol, one of Bristol's Own, a 'Pals' Brigade, 12th (Service) (Bristol) Battalion. He was Killed in Action on the 25th August 1918 in France
Arthur Edward Crossman is remembered on the Yate Lych Gate memorial and the Chipping Sodbury and District War Memorial Cottage Hospital board, which is now at Yate and District Heritage Centre, under Yate
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
Yate and District Heritage Centre, Forces War Records and CWGC