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Croxley Green (Herts)
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The War Memorial for Croxley Green (Herts) The War Memorial for Croxley Green (Herts)
Photo © Copyright Raymond Godfrey

The War Memorial for Crosscrake is located on The Green, opposite the junction with New Road. The memorial is made out of granite.

There are 55 names on this memorial for men who lost their lives in the First World War, and 79 for those who list their lives in the Second World War. Among the names are those of two soldiers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment.

A transcript of all the names on the memorial, and its commemoration, can be found on the Roll of Honour website.

Private Albert Allaway, 123180. 24th Battalion Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), formerly 21891 Yorkshire Regiment. Husband of E. M. Allaway, of 38, Copeswood Rd., Watford. Killed 21 March 1918. Aged 24.
Born Croxley Green (Herts), Enlisted Bedford.
Commemorated Panel 90 to 93, POZIERES MEMORIAL.
(Name spelled as "Alloway" on the memorial)

2nd Lieutenant Alfred Charles Strugnell. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 1 July 1916.
Commemorated on Pier and Face 3 A and 3 D, THIEPVAL MEMORIAL.
The following notes are from Robert Coulson's Biographies of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
"A Hampshire man, Alfred Strugnell was born in Aldershot in 1889.
He served as a private soldier early in the war with the 16th Lancers and rose to the rank of Sergeant with them.
On June 14th 1916 he received his commission “For distinguished conduct in the field” and joined with the 2nd Battalion at Corbie where they were in preparation for the Somme offensive.
July 1st 1916 at 7-30am saw 2nd Lt Strugnell and the 2nd Battalion leaving their trenches for an attack on the German held village of Montauban.
The battalion were in support of the 18th Kings and 19th Manchesters and incurred over two hundred casualties as they crossed no mans land to reach the German line.
2nd Lt Alfred Charles Strugnell was killed in this action at Montauban on July 1st 1916 aged 27 and his body lost he is remembered today on theThiepval Memorial to the Missing."

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