Birth: 23 January 1884 St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands
Father: John Robert Croucher 1842-1927
Mother: Amelia Ann Miller 1850-1921
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: Unknown
Wife: Amy Elizabeth Cann 1887-1918
Death: 8 May 1915 Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Doris Amy Croucher [Gould, Guilmoto] 1914-2001
In the 1891 census as John Croucher aged 7, born in St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands, and living with his parents (Robert J and Amelia A), two brothers (Ernest J and Henry), two sisters (Bertha A and Edith L) and grandmother (Ann Miller) in four rooms at 1 Kings Road, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands.
In the 1901 census as John Croucher aged 17, born in St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands, a painter's apprentice and living with his parents (Robert J and Amelia A), two brothers (Ernest J and Henry) and sister (Bertha A) at 9 Alez Street, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands. This address was shared with another family.
There is an entry in Commonwealth War Graves for John Croucher son of John Robert Croucher and Amelia Ann Miller and husband of Amy Elizabeth Croucher (nee Cann), a private 15774 in the King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 2nd Bn who died on 8 May 1918 aged 33, and is on Panel 12 of Ypres (Memin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
The Channel Islands and the Great War has a photograph of the tombstone in Foulon Cemetery which reads "IN/Loving Memory of/AMELIA ANN MILLER/THE BELOVED WIFE/JOHN R CROUCHER/WHO DIED 13 AUGUST 1921/AGED 70 YEARS/SIMPLY TO THY CROSS I CLING/ALSO OF/PTE JOHN CROUCHER/2nd BATTN, KING's OWN/ROYAL LANCASTER REGIMENT/WHO FELL IN ACTION IN FRANCE/ON THE 8TH MAY 1915, AGED 51 YEARS,/ALSO OF/EDITH CROUCHER/WHO DIED 17 FEBY 1919 AGED 42 YEARS,/THE BELOVED CHILDREN OF JOHN AND AMELIA CROUCHER./"THE LORD GIVETH AND THE LORD/HATH TAKEN AWAY."/ALSO OF THE ABOVE/JOHN ROBERT CROUCHER/WHO DIED 12 SEPTEMBER 1927/AGED 84 YEARS AND 11 MONTHS/R.I.P."
Angela Bishop has an entry in RootsWeb WorldConnect for John Croucher born 23 January 1884 in Guernsey, parents John Robert Croucher and Amelia Miller, his marriage to Amy Elizabeth Cann, a daughter Doris Amy, and his death on 8 May 1915 in France.
There is an entry in Memorials - Liz’s List, May 2008 for John Croucher - Family headstone includes memorial to “Pte John Croucher, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt, who fell in France on 8th May 1915, aged 31 years”.
There is also an entry in Ada's War at St. Stephen's Church, St.Peter Port for Croucher, John, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 8 May 1915 Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Pte. Son of John Robert Croucher and Amelia Ann Miller, his wife; husband of the late Amy Elizabeth Croucher (nee Cann).