Joseph Robert Crone (1869-1925)
Veterinary surgeon from South Shields served in Italy
The end of June 1914 saw Veterinary-Lieutenant Joseph Robert Crone at a training camp with the 4th Northumberland Howiter Brigade in Bellingham and Redesdale in Northumberland. Crone was already the Veteran of the Boer War and had established a veterinary practice in South Shields.
There must have been immense demand for vets to care for animals at the Front and Joseph first set foot in France on 20 April 1915. According to his school’s “register” of old boys who participated in the First World War, Joseph also served in Voghera, Italy where the 1st Veterinary Hospital was established.
According to his obituary the First World War “broke down his health” and he died in the War Pension’s Hospital, Newcastle of heart trouble.
Sources:
North East War Memorials transcription of Stevens, B.D., “Register of the Royal Grammar School Newcastle upon Tyne 1545-1954”, Gateshead on Tyne, Northumberland Press Limited, 1955:
http://www.newmp.org.uk/memimages/Newcastle%20Districts%202/Jesmond%20J1/J1.04z%20Notes%20on%20Names%2014-18.doc
The British Newspaper Archive, Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1 January 1925
Civil Parish: South Shields
Birth date: 1869
Death date: 30-Dec-1924
Armed force/civilian: Army
Residence: Killingworth Hall, Killingworth (birthplace)
29 Westoe Road, South Shields (1911 census and Medal card)
2 Broughton Road, South Shields (1925 Probate Calendar)
Education: Royal Grammar School Newcastle upon Tyne
Royal (Dick) Veterinary College, Edinburgh (NEWMP transcript)
Organisation membership: Member Royal College Veterinary Surgeons
Employment: Veterinary surgeon (1911 census)
Family: Father: Stephen Crone (Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1 January 1925)
(Joseph Robert was seventh son according to above article!)
Wife: Catherine G Crone
Children: Catherine Leslie Crone, Eveline Nora Crone, Susannah Dorothy Crone, John Robert Crone (1911 census)
Military service:
Boer War (pre-First World War)
Royal Army Veterinary Corps
Veterinary-Lieutenant at outbreak
Captain (Medal card)
Medal(s): Queen’s South Africa Medal (Transvaal, Cape Colony and 1901 clasps)
1915 Star (France)
British War Medal
Victory Medal
Territorial Decoration
Gender: Male
Contributed by Peter Hoy | Durham County Record Office
