William Crofts
Rank: Lieutenant
Date of Death: 05/12/1917
Age: 24
Regiment/Service: Lancashire Fusiliers (6th Bn. attd. 2nd/7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment)
Memorial: Cambrai Memorial
Additional information: Son of James and Isabella Crofts of “Mam-Tor”, Eastwood Mains Road, Giffnock.
Rutherglen Lore information: Grandson of Wm. Crofts, Belmont Drive, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Admin: James Crofts Esq.
1911 census information:
Address: 51 Richmond Avenue, Prestwich, Lancashire.
Father: James (42) commercial traveller, born about 1869 in Glasgow.
Mother: Isabella (42) born about 1869 in Glasgow.
Self: William (17) pupil teacher, born about 1894 in Rutherglen.
Brother: Henry Hart (15) apprentice engineer, born about 1896 in Rutherglen.