No.229389, Sergeant, Harry Edward Charles CREEK
Aged 29
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Born in 1889 ( 4th qtr Bury St.edmunds 4a:692) son of Jesse Edward and Annie Maria CREEK (née SMITH)
1891 census...Aged 1, (family name CRICK) he was at 22 St.Edmunds Place, Bury St.Edmunds wth his father Jesse E CRICK [28] ostler/groom born Bury St.Edmunds; his mother Annie M [23] born, Market Weston. His father married as CRICK, but Edward was registered at birth as CREEK. 1901 census...Aged 11 (now CREEK) he was still at 22 St.Edmunds Place with his parents (father now postman); brother George [8] and Jesse [2]; sisters Edith [5] and Esther [4]. All except his mother born in Bury St.Edmunds. 1911 census...Aged 21, a stoker, he was still at 22 St.Edmunds Place with his parents; brothers George (shop orter), Jesse Alfred, Herbert William [9] and Harry Arthur [4]; sisters Edith Maud (general servant), Esther may (mother's help), Hettie Blanche [7] and Ivy Beatrice [23 months]. Nowhere is he anyone other than Edward, it is unknown where the Army got "Harry" from. |
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He enlisted in Bury St.Edmunds. It is next to impossible to track Royal Engineers, here is no war diary available for this Company. The day of his death was the 1st day of the German Spring Offensive "Kaiserschlacht", the start of a very rapid advance of the Germans, sweeping all before them until logstics overcame them and the advance stalled. Not before they had advanced 40 or miles, and killed or captured great numbers of Allied troops.
and commemorated on the St.Edmunds Place memorial click here to go to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website for full cemetery/memorial details |
