Calrow W R L 2nd Lt 1st Loyal North Lancs Regiment
SECOND LIEUTENANT W. R. L. CALROW
Ist BATTALION THE LOYAL NORTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT
WILLIAM ROBERT LAUNCELOT CALROW was the only son of Gerald Walton and Mabel Selina Calrow, of Boerne, Texas, U.S.A., and grandson of Robert Francis Calrow (O.R., 1839). He entered the School in 1909, passed on to the R.M.C., Sandhurst, in 1912, and was gazetted to his Regiment in October, 1913. He went to the Front with the First Expeditionary Force in August, 1914, and fought in the Battles of Mons, the Marne, and the Aisne. He was killed by high explosive shell, near Vendresse, on the Aisne, on October 7th, 1914. Age 19.
His Captain wrote:- “The day he died we had a particularly nasty time in the trenches. Calrow behaved perfectly splendidly, and one of the men remarked on it to me, saying, ‘Young Mr. Calrow is a hero if ever there was one.’
Another Officer said :- “Calrow was a great loss to us and we all felt it very much. He was a thoroughly reliable Officer, perfectly cool under fire, and always as brave as you make them.”