World War 1
Search the known records to date of those lost from the wider Alnwick area in World War 1
Generally showing where they are commemorated, when they died and some basic facts about each person. There are gaps, however, so if you can fill in any missing details do please contact us.
William Ronald Morley Crossman
Forename(s):
William Ronald Morley
Surname:
Crossman
Initial(s):
W R M
Service Number:
Officer
Rank:
2nd Lieutenant
Regiment:
King's Royal Rifle Corps, 2nd Battalion
Died:
02/11/1914
Aged:
20
Buried:
Menin Gate Memorial, Ieper
Service History:
Only received his commission in the K.R.R.C. in February, 1914.
(Source: 'The Bond of Sacrifice'; Volume 1, August to December 1914; Page 96)
Background:
Born on 6 September 1894, at Goswick House, Beal, Northumberland, the younger of two sons, both in the Army, of the late Major Lawrence Morley Crossman, J.P., a freeman of Berwick-upon-Tweed & Lord of the Manor of Holy Island, & Mrs. F. A. Morley Crossman, of Radcliffe House, Bamburgh, Northumberland.
Grandson of the late Major-General Sir William Crossman, K.C.M.G., Royal Engineers, sometime Member of Parliament for Portsmouth.
Educated at Lyndhurst, Wellington College, & the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
(Source: 'The Bond of Sacrifice'; Volume 1, August to December 1914; Page 96)
Local Memorial:
Alnwick & County Gazette', 21 November 1914
