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CHARLES CRANSWICK

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Rank
Boy 1st Class
Regiment
ROYAL NAVY HMS GANGES II
Military Number
J.92932.
Address
14, ROXBURGH STREET, PRINCES AVENUE, HULL, HU5 3NR
Background

BORN HULL 15/01/1903. SON OF MATTHEW HENRY CRANSWICK (1860-1928) & THE LATE KATE WRIGHT (1863-1909), OF 14, ROXBURGH STREET, PRINCES AVENUE, HULL. THIS WAS HIS 1918 MILITARY VOTERS ADDRESS.

ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 04/09/1915. JOINED THE ROYAL NAVY AS A BOY SAILOR. DIED OF FLU, ON 03/11/1918, AGED 15.

BURIED AT HULL WESTERN CEMETERY.

HIS BROTHER, LANCE CORPORAL, MATTHEW HENRY CRANSWICK, 200495, 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT WAS KILLED ON 05/05/1918, AGED 23.

Date Died
03/11/1918
Died
Hull Western Cemetery, East Yorkshire, UK
Age
15
Memorial
Chanterlands Avenue
Kingston upon Hull HU5 4AY

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