Birth: January-March 1899 Portsea, Hampshire, UK
Father: James Edmund Croucher 1869-a1901
Mother: Ada Friend 1870-a1901
Marriage: Unknown
Wife: Unknown
Death: After 1919
Unknown
Birth of Eric James Croucher in FreeBMD in January-March 1899 in Portsea (2b 458)
In the 1901 census as Eric James Croucher aged 2, born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, and living with his parents (James and Ada) and sister (Dorothy Ada) at 176 Clive St. St Mary, Portsea, Hampshire.
Entry in Ancestry British Army Service Records 1914-1920 for Eric James Croucher of 13 Omega Street, Portsmouth, aged 17 years 6 months, a dockyard clerk, signed for a short service on 22 September 1916 and was put on Army Reserve. On 27 April 1918 he joined the 113 Training Reserve Battn as 5/174130? until 7 September 1918 when his next of kin was his aunt Mrs J Evans of 13 Omega Street, Southsea. He was demobilised on 20 January 1919 from E MGC T Battn as 187856. He was transfered to 2 Amy Reserve on 21 February 1919, his home address unchanged. His height was 5 feet, 4.25 inches, weight 110 Lbs, girth 33 inches, expansion 3 inches, fair development, 5 vaccinations on his left arm, his right eye vision was 6/9 and left 6/60 (nil), he was 4 lb underweight and 1 inch short on height.