Mysterious Occupation for an Interesting Chap

[SouthseaSteel]

SouthseaSteel, you already seem to know quite a bit about this man. Were you aware that the 10th battalion Royal Fusiliers, as well as being a conventional service battalion also acted as holding unit for the nascent Intelligence Corps? Pte(Acting Sergeant) EC Crick held the Army number 253372. You can read a bit more about the dual role of the 10th battalion on the Great War Forum Here and Here. Also Wikipedia has This on the subject, although I'm guessing you have already found that one. A contemporary, though limited, source can be found on pages 10 - 11 of H.C. O’Neill, The Royal Fusiliers in the Great War, London: Heinemann, 1922.

I assume that his entry in the 1921 Census which says that he was in the Armed Services Overseas is where you found out that he was serving with BAOR in 1921 (I haven't paid to look at the exact detail of the entry). Since he was presumably still a serving soldier his service record will have survived and you can obtain it from the MOD. (details of how to do that here). This is likely to tell you a lot more about his intelligence career and when he joined and left the Army.

Oh yes, bang on!!!  Cant thank you enough Andy.  All of this is new and is plenty to chew on.  I have already found some new info using his Army number.  Rich pickings.  Thanks again

[jorose]

"as given on the 1950 death certificate" - by who? Who was the informant?


I see that his Antwerp immigration record is linked to his FS page but not the original. In case you haven't seen it, his file starts here:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L99C-QY6K?wc=M6TQ-4PD%3A342014901%26cc%3D2023926&cc=2023926&lang=en&i=13

It looks like he had been in Paris visiting his father when he came in late 1924.  He claimed to work for Ford (which on one level would make sense as Ford did open a site in Antwerp in 1922).  There is a picture of him in the files and some info about addresses he stayed at.

[jorose]

More records of him from a US paper based in Paris confirming a Ford link:

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bd6t521333d/f4.image.r=%22Ernest%20Clifton%20Crick%22?rk=21459;2

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bd6t5197457/f4.image.r=%22Ernest%20Clifton%20Crick%22?rk=42918;4

Also his Victorian court record (Ernest C Crick aka George Hamilton)
https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/1CA8604F-F3A9-11E9-AE98-1D6EA4F7F3F8?image=62

[PatLac]

Great finds, jorose!

His grandparents' account of the events that took place in Paris during the Prussian siege in 1870 has inspired this novel.

https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Window_in_Paris.html?id=MhOL5vzVAM4C&redir_esc=y


MISS MARIANNE FARNINGHAM

... latter work was a vivid record of the state of things in Paris during the German siege of 1870, and the sanguinary period the Commune which followed. Her information came from Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Crick, friends with local connections, who had lived through ...

Published: Friday 21 December 1934
Newspaper: Northampton Mercury
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 237 | Page: 6

[PatLac]

I wonder if Ernest was an alias? Or is this his brother?

Name:   Mother's Maiden Surname:
   CRICK, CHARLES  CLIFTON     WARREN 
GRO Reference: 1876  M Quarter in LAMBETH  Volume 01D  Page 581

His parents (Charles Clifton Crick and Mary Ann (Annie) Warren married in Kensington, England in 1873.

Surname    First name(s)        District    Vol    Page
Marriages Sep 1873   (>99%)

Crick    Charles Clifton        Kensington    1a   366   
Warren    Annie        Kensington    1a   366

[Ladyhawk]

I wonder if Ernest was an alias? Or is this his brother?

CRICK, CHARLES  CLIFTON     WARREN 
GRO Reference: 1876  M Quarter in LAMBETH  Volume 01D  Page 581

His parents (Charles Clifton Crick and Mary Ann (Annie) Warren married in Kensington, England in 1873.

Marriages Sep 1873 
Crick    Charles Clifton        Kensington    1a   366   
Warren    Annie        Kensington    1a   366

For info

Charles Clifton Crick Death Age   6 mths
Birth Place   Lower Norwood (Angleterre)
Death 7 août 1876 (7 Aug 1876) 16e Arrondissement, Paris, France
Father Charles Clifton Crick Mother   Annie Warren

Added
Annie Warren Death Age   28
Birth Place   Leighton (Angleture) (Leighton)
Death 28 juin 1879 (28 Jun 1879) 17e Arrondissement, Paris, France
Father   Thomas Warren
Mother   Mary Anne Webster
Spouse   Charles Clifton Crick

[PatLac]

Great, thanks!

[SouthseaSteel]

"as given on the 1950 death certificate" - by who? Who was the informant?

His 2nd wife and widow Clara nee Widdows

[SouthseaSteel]

I wonder if Ernest was an alias? Or is this his brother?

Name:   Mother's Maiden Surname:
   CRICK, CHARLES  CLIFTON     WARREN 
GRO Reference: 1876  M Quarter in LAMBETH  Volume 01D  Page 581

His parents (Charles Clifton Crick and Mary Ann (Annie) Warren married in Kensington, England in 1873.



Surname    First name(s)        District    Vol    Page
Marriages Sep 1873   (>99%)

Crick    Charles Clifton        Kensington    1a   366   
Warren    Annie        Kensington    1a   366

This was his brother.  Born London 1876, died Paris 1876