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| Imperial War Graves Commission engraving request for 'Thy will be done' requested for personal inscription on Sergeant R F Cramp's headstone | |
| 1927 | |
| 1920-1939 | |
Richard Frank Cramp served as a sergeant (No. 371207) in the London Regiment (Post Office Rifles) 8th Battalion, having enlisted at Sheffield. He was killed at the Battle of the Somme, France on 10th August 1918, aged 32. (He was the third son of Sergeant J B Cramp, commissionaire at the Independent Office. His remains were interred at Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery. Born in Woolwich, London, Richard went on become a postman. He married May B Georgina Plant of Moor Lane, Ravenfield, Rotherham in 1910, in the Ecclesall Bierlow district. White's Trade Directory of 1913 shows Frank at 66 Fulton Road, Walkley, Sheffield. Original at Sheffield Archives (ref. X3/15). |
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