Enlistment

• Enlisted:
• at Desborough on 10 Dec 1915. Aged 27y

• Description:
• height 5ft 8½in; weight 164lbs; chest 37½in; vision 6/18 6/6; teeth Good; physical development Good; marks History of Enteric Fever 20 yrs ago, wart on left side neck; defect Varicose Veins, left leg, slight; religion Baptist.
  

• Occupation:
• Boot Trade (edge trimmer)

• Address:
• 17 Gold St, Desborough

• Next of kin:
• (Father) John Robert Crick, 17 Gold St, Desborough

Service history

17 Jan 1917

Appointed to 4th Battn Northamptonshire Regiment (8033)

20 Jan 1917

Posted. Depot

26 Apr 1917

Transferred to 2 Battn Machine Gun Corps (102337)

22 Jun 1917

Embarked Folkestone for Boulogne

23 Jun 1917

Joined M.G.C. Base Depot, Camiers

11 Aug 1917

Joined company. Field

01 Apr 1918

Illness: Admitted. ICT Legs

11 Jan 1918

Appointed to Appointed Unpaid L/C

19 Apr 1918

From Hospital. Field

03 May 1918

Promoted Corporal

28 Jun 1918

Illness: To Hospital

16 Aug 1918

Leave to UK

28 Aug 1918

Rejoined Battn

04 Sep 1918

Rejoined from leave

13 Nov 1918

Awarded Military Medal (London Gazette)

25 Feb 1919

Embarked Boulogne for UK. Proceeding to Purfleet for demobilization

27 Mar 1919

Demobbed.

Military Medal
British War Medal
Victory Medal

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