A.V. Crampton
Epithet: First World War sailor
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Sailor. 'No. ?. Chief Steward. H.M.S. Ramsey (His Majesty's Ship). Been on Ramsey all the spring & summer. Called Aug. 11. Missing. Reported dead. Aug. 13 Married 3 children. Ship was torpedoed Aug. 8.' NOTE - year of death was 1915 (Commonwealth War Graves Commission). (Extract from handwritten notes by The Reverend Robert Daniel Kermode, Vicar of St George's Church, Douglas, about men from his parish serving in the First World War. MS 10003/5)
External sources: 7 Grosvenor Road