Crabtree

Flight Sergeant, Pilot, 1378372, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, No 224 Squadron, (Coastal Command) flying Liberator aircraft on Anti - submarine patrols) Beaulieu, Hants. Died 7th Nov 1942, age 31. Second son of Frank & Rose Olive Crabtree of Horton Grange Rd, Bradford. (C.W.G.C. has "of Bingley") Husband of Ida Crabtree, of Bow Wood Drive, Sandbeds, Bingley. Educated at Grange School, Bradford, (on the memorial there) and before enlisting in the R.A.F. in 1940 he was a salesman for Vincent Ferrand, Keighley. Cemetery: Boldre (St. John) Churchyard, Hampshire, Row 1 Grave 4.
 * Kenneth Crabtree**

See Keighley News 21st Nov 1942, (Photo).