Mary Evans Lieutenant Norman Champion de Crespigny, WW1 10699273

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Picture No	10699273
Date	1914
Description	Lieutenant Norman Champion de Crespigny, WW1
Details	Lieutenant Norman Champion de Crespigny of the Queen's Bays, who was killed in action at Nery, near Compiegne in France on 1 September 1914. He was killed while leading his men against advancing Germans, and, while trying to take German guns with a revolver in his hand he was hit by shrapnel. He was buried at Nery but disinterred later and returned home to be buried in the family mausoleum at Champion Lodge, Maldon, Essex. He was one of the few officers whose body was returned to England before the practice was forbidden in 1915.
Source	Photograph in The Tatler, 16 September 1914
Credit	© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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