Arthur CROOKENDEN

Memorial Floor Tile
Arthur Crookenden. For sixty five years of service to the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment.
Born 14 January 1877 to Lieutenant Colonel Henry Humphreys P and Emily Constance Crookenden, nee Wainwright.
1939 with his wife Dorothy and son at Terrace Road, Binfield Easthampstead Berkshire occupation Retired army officer C.B.S. D.S.O.
Colonel of the Regiment 1930 – 1947.
Died 23 December 1962 at Woking Berkshire.

London Gazette dated 20 August 1915 page 8375
The Cheshire Regiment. The promotion to the rank of Major of Captain A. Crookenden is antedated to the 7th May, 1915.

London Gazette dated 6 March 1916 page 2452.
GENERAL STAFF. General Staff Officers, 1st Grade and to be temporary Lieutenant-Colonels
whilst so employed Major Arthur Crookenden, The Cheshire Regiment, vice Major (temporary Brigadier General)

Edinburgh Gazette dated 25 May 1917 page 985
Awarded the Croix de Guerre. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Arthur Crookenden, Cheshire Regiment

Supplement to Edinburgh Gazette dated 2 February 1919 page 17.
Awarded the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.)

Edinburgh Gazette dated 13 June 1939 page 506
The KING has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the Celebration of His Majesty's Birthday, to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. To be Commanders of the Military Division of the said Most Excellent Order. Colonel Arthur Crookenden, D.S.O., retired pay, Colonel, The Cheshire Regiment.

Memorial Floor Tile in Chester Cathedral, Cheshire.