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Military service
Age:
28
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Connaught Rangers
Division:
3rd Bn. attd. 6th Bn.
Enlistment:
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
March 21, 1918
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Son of Sir Malby Crofton, 3rd Bart., and Lady Crofton, of Longford House, Ballisodare, Co. Sligo.
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Captain Thomas Horsfall Crofton was serving as an Officer with the British Army at the time of his death. He was a Captain with the 3rd Battalion Connaught Rangers, attached to the 6th Battalion Connaught Rangers on 21 March 1918. The Connaught Rangers Association reports the following: http://connaughtrangersassoc.com/history/capt-thomas-horsfall-crofton/ Near Ronssoy Wood, contact was made with enemy troops. At 3.45pm the Rangers were ordered to counterattack. A Company led by Captain Crofton was to attack on the left with D Company on the right along a sunken road to the west of Ronssoy Wood. With little or no accurate intelligence on the strength of the enemy and in the midst of a terrific whirlwind of shell and rifle fire Tom Crofton led his men toward the Wood. A Coy was soon flanked on both sides by thousands of enemy storm troopers and the entire Company was annihilated. Captain Crofton MC was killed leading his men forward and his body was never recovered.
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Captain Thomas Horsfall Crofton
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Page 585 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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