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Lt. Ambrose Henry Thomas Crowson
British Army Leicestershire Regiment
from:Atherstone, Warwickshire
Ambrose Crowson was my Great Grandfather. At the time of the second world war he was the manager of the Birch Coppice colliery, I believe he was living in the Atherstone area at the time. Ambrose was a former officer of the Leicestershire Regiment during WW1, having been commissioned as 2nd Lt early in 1918. During the German spring offensive of May 1918 he was captured, suffering from shell shock, in his trench after a heavy and sustained German bombardment. He was captured on 27th of May 1918, along with some of his fellow 8th Battalion and 4th Battalion officers, and was subsequently interred at the Schweidnitz officers P.O.W. camp in Germany (this is now part of modern day Poland). He was repatriated in 1919.
I know little of his 2nd World War service, other than his willingness to volunteer once again to 'do his bit' I know that he had commanded a home guard unit, despite the fact he was working at the coal mine 7 days a week. I obtained his Home Guard unit information, I'd always believed he commanded the Dorden and Grendon home guard, but this may not be the case.
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