Crabbe, CTE
(1897 - 1915)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
2nd February 1897
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1912 - 1914
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
Gleneyre, Bassett, Southampton
REGIMENT
3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards
FINAL RANK:
Lieutenant
DATE OF DEATH:
27th September 1915
AGE AT DEATH:
18
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Loos
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Loos Memorial. Panel 5 to 7
Lieutenant Campbell Tempest Eyre Crabbe
Campbell was born on February 2nd 1897, the fourth and final son of Eyre MacDonnell Crabbe, a Brigadier-General in the Army, and his wife, Emily. He had been at Winchester before starting at Dulwich, the only one of the Crabbe boys to attend the College.
He left just before the war began, and took up a place at Sandhurst, passing out to take up a commission with the Grenadier Guards in April 1915. In July of that year he was promoted to Lieutenant, and was also sent to France for the first time. On September 27th his battalion was part of 2nd Guards Brigade, which was involved in an advance on Chalk Pit Wood, near Loos. At some point that afternoon Campbell was reported “missing”, and was never seen or heard from again. His 2nd cousin, Harry Jameson, a fellow OA, would go on to be killed in early 1917.
