Morris Crampton

Private 306012. 2/6th Battalion. Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment.

Son of David and Jane.

Brother of Willie, Harold, Dennis, Ida and Kathleen.

Born: 1895.

Address: 115 Swallow Lane, Golcar.

Occupation: Weaver at Hirst&Mallinson, Cliff End Mills, Longwood.

Enlisted in March 1915.

Died of wounds; 26th November 1917. Aged 22.

Buried at Wimereux Communal Cemetery. V111. Α. 1A.

Awarded the Military Medal.

Maurice was sent to France on 29th June 1915, and died of the effects of gas shell poisoning in hospital there. He had written home two weeks earlier to tell his parents he had been awarded the Military Medal.

He attended Scapegoat Hill Baptist Chapel, where his name appears on their Roll of Honour and also at St. John's Church, Golcar.

Wimereux is 5km north of Bologne and was the headquarters of Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps during the First World War. From 1914 onwards Bologne and Wimereux formed an important hospital centre and until 1918 the medical units at Wimereux used the Communal Cemetery for burials.