CROUCHER, Robert Harry

Credit: Gary Newman

Serjeant

4th Battalion

Gordon Highlanders

Robert was born 1891 in Newport to Captain (Merchant Navy) Frederick James & Eleanor (nee COOPER) CROUCHER. In 1901 the family were living at 46 Sea Street in Newport. 1915 in Chorlton, Lancashire he married Olive MELLOR, who was living at 12 Gordon Street, Healed Grove, Rusholme Manchester around the time of Robert’s death.

Robert, aged 27, was Killed in Action on the 26th of October 1918 & rests in Grave 29 of the Famars Communal Cemetery Extension beneath a Commission Headstone bearing the Family Inscription: “PEACE PERFECT PEACE”, alongside around 40 of his First World War comrades in this small cemetery.

Robert is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.