Crabtree,+Enos

Enos Crabtree

Born at Oxenhope in 1895 he died aged 23 on 1-8-1918. Servrd as a Gunner with the Royal Garrison Artillery in the 160th Heavy Battery. Service number 95025

Enos is buried in KIRECHKOI-HORTAKOI Military Cemetery. Grave Ref. 48 This cemetery is in Greece about 15km NE of Thessalonika at the side of the site of 60th/65th/66th/ General Hospitals which operated from June 1918 until the end of the war on that front. These hospitals had been in Turkish hands until June 1918. (according to an RAMC who was there these were in a filthy state when the British took them over)

Enos was the son of John Wm.( born 1861 ) and Deborah (nee Dawson )Crabtree of Station View, Oxenhope. The couple had several other children. John was a stone masom.