Crompton, Private Richard Ernest (b.1874)

Diaries, Army Form B20, and miscellaneous photographs, of Private Richard Ernest Crompton (b.1874), 93rd Field Ambulance, RAMC, 1915-1918.

1915-1918

2 volumes, 1 form, 6 photos

Purchased from David White Antiquarian Books, March 2003

Richard Ernest Crompton was a 41-year-old gas-inspector in Bolton who enlisted in the RAMC in August 1915 for the duration of the war and served with the 93rd Field Ambulance. He was a widower with two daughters, Celia and Dora, apparently being looked after by his sister-in-law, Margaret Rushton.