Lionel Crouch

Lionel William Crouch (20 August 1886 – 21 July 1916) was a British solicitor who was killed during the First World War in the Battle of the Somme.

He had a younger brother, Guy R. Crouch, who became a captain in the 1st Bucks Battalion of the British Army and was awarded the Military Cross; and a sister Doris.

[4] Crouch was an officer in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, part of the Territorial Force, before the start of the First World War.

[1]: 9  He is buried at Pozières British Cemetery, Ovillers-la Boisselle, Somme, France, and remembered on the war memorial, in Market Square, and on a plaque at St Mary the Virgin church, Aylesbury.

In 1917, his father William privately published Lionel's letters from the front to him as Duty and Service with the proceeds donated to war charities.