Age: 24
Regiment/Service: Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 4th Bn.
Son of Harry and Elizabeth Roden Croom-Johnson, of The Elms, Wrexham, Denbighshire.
CROOM-JOHNSON, BRIAN, Lieutenant, 4th (Denbighshire) Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers (T.F.), youngest son of Harry Croom-Johnson, of the Elms, Wrexham, J.P., by his wife, Elizabeth Roden, daughter of the late George Bradley, of Wrexham, J.P.; born Wrexham, 16 Sept. 1890; educated Mostyn House School, Cheshire, and Clifton College (Spence's House); after leaving school adopted the profession of an engineer and on the completion of three years' articles was appointed Assistant Engineer to the Wrexham and East Denbighshire Water Company. He was given a commission as 2nd Lieutenant 4th (Territorial) Battalion of the Welch Fusiliers, 3 May, 1913, and promoted Lieutenant 8 Sept. 1914. He left for France 5 Nov. 1914, and on the 23 Dec. following was personally complimented by the General Officer Commanding for leading a party of 30 men laden with ammunition to the firing-trenches and carrying out this duty without a single casualty, though under fire the whole time; and on 25 Jan. 1915, he was one of three officers who, with a few men, recaptured a trench at Givenchy from which they had been ordered to retire and made prisoners 35 Germans, including two officers. He was killed in action at Richebourg l'Avoué, France, 9 May, 1915, while leading his company against the German trenches; unmarried.
Regiment/Service: Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 4th Bn.
Son of Harry and Elizabeth Roden Croom-Johnson, of The Elms, Wrexham, Denbighshire.
CROOM-JOHNSON, BRIAN, Lieutenant, 4th (Denbighshire) Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers (T.F.), youngest son of Harry Croom-Johnson, of the Elms, Wrexham, J.P., by his wife, Elizabeth Roden, daughter of the late George Bradley, of Wrexham, J.P.; born Wrexham, 16 Sept. 1890; educated Mostyn House School, Cheshire, and Clifton College (Spence's House); after leaving school adopted the profession of an engineer and on the completion of three years' articles was appointed Assistant Engineer to the Wrexham and East Denbighshire Water Company. He was given a commission as 2nd Lieutenant 4th (Territorial) Battalion of the Welch Fusiliers, 3 May, 1913, and promoted Lieutenant 8 Sept. 1914. He left for France 5 Nov. 1914, and on the 23 Dec. following was personally complimented by the General Officer Commanding for leading a party of 30 men laden with ammunition to the firing-trenches and carrying out this duty without a single casualty, though under fire the whole time; and on 25 Jan. 1915, he was one of three officers who, with a few men, recaptured a trench at Givenchy from which they had been ordered to retire and made prisoners 35 Germans, including two officers. He was killed in action at Richebourg l'Avoué, France, 9 May, 1915, while leading his company against the German trenches; unmarried.
Age: 24
Regiment/Service: Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 4th Bn.
Son of Harry and Elizabeth Roden Croom-Johnson, of The Elms, Wrexham, Denbighshire.
CROOM-JOHNSON, BRIAN, Lieutenant, 4th (Denbighshire) Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers (T.F.), youngest son of Harry Croom-Johnson, of the Elms, Wrexham, J.P., by his wife, Elizabeth Roden, daughter of the late George Bradley, of Wrexham, J.P.; born Wrexham, 16 Sept. 1890; educated Mostyn House School, Cheshire, and Clifton College (Spence's House); after leaving school adopted the profession of an engineer and on the completion of three years' articles was appointed Assistant Engineer to the Wrexham and East Denbighshire Water Company. He was given a commission as 2nd Lieutenant 4th (Territorial) Battalion of the Welch Fusiliers, 3 May, 1913, and promoted Lieutenant 8 Sept. 1914. He left for France 5 Nov. 1914, and on the 23 Dec. following was personally complimented by the General Officer Commanding for leading a party of 30 men laden with ammunition to the firing-trenches and carrying out this duty without a single casualty, though under fire the whole time; and on 25 Jan. 1915, he was one of three officers who, with a few men, recaptured a trench at Givenchy from which they had been ordered to retire and made prisoners 35 Germans, including two officers. He was killed in action at Richebourg l'Avoué, France, 9 May, 1915, while leading his company against the German trenches; unmarried.
Regiment/Service: Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 4th Bn.
Son of Harry and Elizabeth Roden Croom-Johnson, of The Elms, Wrexham, Denbighshire.
CROOM-JOHNSON, BRIAN, Lieutenant, 4th (Denbighshire) Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers (T.F.), youngest son of Harry Croom-Johnson, of the Elms, Wrexham, J.P., by his wife, Elizabeth Roden, daughter of the late George Bradley, of Wrexham, J.P.; born Wrexham, 16 Sept. 1890; educated Mostyn House School, Cheshire, and Clifton College (Spence's House); after leaving school adopted the profession of an engineer and on the completion of three years' articles was appointed Assistant Engineer to the Wrexham and East Denbighshire Water Company. He was given a commission as 2nd Lieutenant 4th (Territorial) Battalion of the Welch Fusiliers, 3 May, 1913, and promoted Lieutenant 8 Sept. 1914. He left for France 5 Nov. 1914, and on the 23 Dec. following was personally complimented by the General Officer Commanding for leading a party of 30 men laden with ammunition to the firing-trenches and carrying out this duty without a single casualty, though under fire the whole time; and on 25 Jan. 1915, he was one of three officers who, with a few men, recaptured a trench at Givenchy from which they had been ordered to retire and made prisoners 35 Germans, including two officers. He was killed in action at Richebourg l'Avoué, France, 9 May, 1915, while leading his company against the German trenches; unmarried.
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