Private · British Army · 1/6th Battalion, Queen’s Royal Regiment
1918–1944 | Aged 26
Died: 22 June 1944
Buried at: Tilly-sur-Seulles War Cemetery, France
Henry Ernest Van Crugten was the son of Henry and Daisy Van Crugten. He was married to Edna May Van Crugten, and the couple lived in New Cross, London.
Henry served with the Queen’s Royal Regiment during the Second World War.
He was killed in Normandy on 22 June 1944, just over two weeks after the D-Day landings. He was 26 years old.
His headstone carries a personal message from his wife, Edna, expressing her enduring love and the comfort she found in his memory.