Lionel Crouch
British solicitor
Lionel William Crouch (20 August 1886 – 21 July 1916) was a British solicitor who was killed during the First World War in the Battle of the Somme.
Early life
Lionel William Crouch was born on 20 August 1886 to William Crouch, a Clerk of the Peace to Buckinghamshire County Council, and Helen Marian Crouch née Sissons. He had a younger brother, Guy R. Crouch, who became a captain in the 1st Bucks Battalion of the British Army and was awarded the Military Cross; and a sister Doris. The family home was Friarscroft in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
Crouch was educated at Marlborough College from 1900 to 1904 and went on to qualify as a solicitor in 1909. He worked for Horwood and James in Aylesbury. He was also a deputy Clerk of the Peace for Buckinghamshire. His brother was also a solicitor, with Parrott and Coales.
A keen philatelist, Crouch was vice-president of the Junior Philatelic Society.
Military career
Crouch was an officer in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, part of the Territorial Force, before the start of the First World War.
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