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Private Walter Crisp of the 8th Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment (51st Brigade, 17th (Northern) Division) was killed in action on 23 Apr 1917 during the Second Battle of the Scarpe, in France. His body was not recovered and he is remembered on the Arras Memorial in the city of Arras. He was awarded the 1915 Star and the War and Victory Medals.
Walter was born in Bridlington 7 Apr 1891 and baptised 13 May. His parents, Joseph and Louisa Crisp were originally from County Durham. In 1885 Joseph joined Hull police, switching to the East Riding Constabulary in 1888. He served in most parts of the county rising to the rank of Sergeant in 1896, Inspector in 1904 and Superintendant in 1906 when he was based at Pocklington. Between 1915 and 1921 he was the Deputy Chief Constable based in Beverley. He was to win the King’s Police Medal. Walter was unmarried. He had a sister Jane, and two brothers George William who became a master butcher and Brice who worked as an accountant for East Riding County Council.
Walter enlisted Sep 1914, he was working as a clerk at Barclays Bank in York. He arrived in France 14 Jul 1915. In 1912 his brother Brice whilst serving in the Territorial Army (the 5th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment- Cyclists), seriously injured his spine in an accident. He never fully recovered and died in December 1915, being given a full military funeral in St Mary’s Cemetery, New Walk, Beverley.
Walter is remembered on the Beverley Hengate and Pocklington War Memorials and the East Riding Memorial in Beverley Minster. There is also an inscription about him on the Crisp family plot in New Walk Cemetery, Beverley
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