Cyril George Crick
30 November 1896 - 27 August 1917

Cyril was born on 30 November 1896 to George Alfred Slack Crick, a Peterborough corn merchant, and his wife Jessica of Springfield, Thorpe Road, Peterborough, a large house opposite the old District Hospital. He was the youngest of three children, with an elder brother Leslie and a sister Mary. Cyril first went to school at Miss Exley’s, then entered The King’s School aged 9, on 19 January 1905. He left King’s on 30 September 1912 (aged 16), moving on to Gresham’s School at Holt in Norfolk.

In 1913, Cyril left Gresham's (aged 17) to join his father's business. He was granted a commission in the Huntingdonshire Cyclists' Battalion on 5 May 1915 and one year later was attached to the Worcestershire Regiment. On 27 August 1917, he was killed in action leading his platoon in the Ypres Salient. In a letter, his Commanding Officer, Colonel Leonard Billen, wrote "Courageously leading, he tried to get them forward under heavy machine gun fire. He was always ready to do anything for his men, his death was a brave one and he died instantly." His body was never found, and he is commemorated on the memorial walls of Tyne Cot Cemetery, Passchendaele, Belgium.