Enlistment

• Enlisted:
• at Desborough on 11 Dec 1915. Aged 29y 4m

• Description:
• height 5ft 7½in; chest 35in; religion Baptist.
  

• Occupation:
• Corset Factory

• Address:
• 17 Gold St, Desborough

• Next of kin:
• (Father) John Crick, 17 Gold St, Desborough. Later (Wife) Winifred Miriam Crick, 13 Charles St, Rothwell

Service history

22 Mar 1916

Appointed to 6th Battn Essex Regiment (6061)

23 Aug 1916

Transferred to 7th Battn Border Regiment (27518)

09 Sep 1916

B.E.F.

23 Apr 1917

Missing

23 Apr 1917

Gun shot wound, left leg. (Leg later amputated - records don't show when this happened)

25 May 1917

Letter from Rev J.T. Crotty to War Office reporting that Crick and 2 others had recently arrived at POW Camp Gieesen

20 Jan 1918

Repatriated Prisoner of War

08 Mar 1918

Granted leave pending admission to Queen Mary's Hospital. It may be that this was for the amputation of his left leg

20 Sep 1918

Transferred to 2 M Conv Aux, Roehampton

26 Oct 1918

Discharged. being no longer physically fit for war service. Character Very Good

British War Medal
Victory Medal

Letter from his wife seeking information after a long silence during the war

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