Second Lieutenant Fritz Portmore CRAWHALL (Did not matriculate)

6th (Reserve) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Born 15 August 1895 on the Isle of Wight
Killed in action 10 March, 1915, aged 19
Commemorated on Le Touret Memorial, Pas-de-Calais, France. Also commemorated on the War Cloister at Winchester College.

Fritz Crawhall was born at Ryde on the Isle of Wight. He was the son of Revd Edmund Isaac Laroche Crawhall and Isabella Duncan, née Grant, of Herriard, Basingstoke.

He was educated at Carter’s School, Maidenhead, and Winchester College. In 1914 he was elected to a Scholarship at Merton College.

At the outbreak of war he was in camp on Salisbury Plain with the Winchester Officer Training Corps, in which he held the rank of Colour-Sergeant.  On 15 August 1914 he obtained his commission in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps.

He fell in action at Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée on 10 March 1915, during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle. He was seen to fall in a German trench but his body was never recovered.