Biography:
Campbell Tempest Eyre Crabbe was born 2 February 1897, the fourth son of Brigadier-General Eyre Macdonell Stewart Crabbe CB and Emily Constance, daughter of William Jameson.
He came to Wincheser College in September 1910 and was in H House, Bramston's, and then left in the summer of 1912 to go to Dulwich College.
Campbell was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards from Sandhurst in 1915 but died at the age of 18, during an attack during the Battle of Loos. On 27 September 1915, under cover of a thick smoke screen, 2 Guards Brigade, which included 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, advanced to Chalk Pit Wood and the Chalk Pit, between Hulluch and Loos, where they were to support the 1st Scots Guards in an attack on a colliery heading and workings, known as Puits 14 bis, together with the few remaining small buildings on site. The attack failed and at some point in this action, Eyre-Crabbe was killed. The London Gazette of February 1918 published a notice inviting people who had a claim against his estate to get in touch with his solicitors, and giving Eyre-Crabbe's address as Glen Eyre, Bassett, Southampton.