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John Cyril Crowley. 



We have again to deplore the loss of another of our 

 members on the field of battle, this time in the swamps of 

 Mesopotamia. 



Captain Crowley was Ijorn at Croydon ou December 2, 

 1877, and was the second son of Alexander Crowley, and 

 the great-nephew of the late Philip Crowley, whose valuable 

 collection of eggs is now one of the treasures of the Natural 

 History Museum. He was educated at Wiinborne and at 

 Keble College, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1899. 

 He then spent nearly a year at Oxford House, Bethnal 

 Green, where he greatly interested himself in the boys^ 

 clubs and kindred matters. Later on he joined his father 

 and brother in business, and became a most etficient member 

 of their firm. From childhood he manifested great interest 

 in animal life and specially in that of birds, following in the 

 steps of his great-uncle Philip Crowley. He devoted all his 

 holidays to the photography of birds and nests, chietly in 

 the Hebrides and Perthshire, and after many trials he 

 obtained excellent photographs of the Great Northern Diver, 

 Grey-Lag Goose and Capercailiie, the last-named on the 

 estate of, and with the permission of, the Marquis of Breadal- 

 bane, who kindly gave him every facility. He contributed 

 articles illustrated by his photographs to ' Country Life ' 

 and the 'Badminton Magazine,' and became a Member of 

 the Union in 1903. He was gazetted to the 4th Battalion 

 (Territorial) of the Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment 

 some 12 or 13 years ago, and was given command of the 

 Machine Gun Section, to which he devoted much time, 

 passing examinations at Hythe and at Vickers & Maxim's. 

 He was in camp in July 1914 when the regiment was mobi- 

 lized at the outbreak of the War, and went with them to 

 India in October. He was very anxious to see active 

 service, and when officers were required for Mesopotamia 



