Date: 27/08/2014
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Owner: Pete Rogers (Admin)
Fusilier Arthur Probert Crofts
In Memory of 4203539 Fusilier Arthur Probert Crofts
Royal Welch Fusiliers and No.12 Commando
who died aged 29 on 11/12/42
Remembered with honour at Droylsden Cemetery
nb. The CWGC have the surname spelt as CROFTS rather than CROFT as shown on the headstone at his grave.
With the surname shown on the grave as CROFT and on the CWGC as CROFTS, I have discovered there is a Marriage Registry entry in 1938 for Crofts A.P. in the Manchester South District of Lancashire
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Sun Mar 17 13:49:31 2013
Arthur died whilst in the UK, possibly from wounds sustained earlier or maybe in a training accident. David Henry Hill, also 12 Cdo, is listed as being killed in training on 4 Dec 1942. Could there be a link?
Posted by Geoff Murray on Sun Mar 18 20:05:25 2012
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surname difference
With the surname shown on the grave as CROFT and on the CWGC as CROFTS, I have discovered there is a Marriage Registry entry in 1938 for Crofts A.P. in the Manchester South District of Lancashire
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Sun Mar 17 13:49:31 2013
Arthur died whilst in the UK, possibly from wounds sustained earlier or maybe in a training accident. David Henry Hill, also 12 Cdo, is listed as being killed in training on 4 Dec 1942. Could there be a link?
Posted by Geoff Murray on Sun Mar 18 20:05:25 2012