Age: 24
Sex: male
Date: 31 Jul 1921
Place: Whitby Harbour, Whitby, Yorkshire
Harold Crines was knocked into Whitby Harbour during a dispute on the night of Sunday 31 July 1921 and drowned.
He had been struck by an unknown private during a dispute on the pier at Whitby and knocked into the water and drowned. Although his companions said that it had been a group of soldiers that had knocked him in, they said that it had been so dark that they could not identify them.
Harold Crines had been a private in the 5th Battalion of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment which was encamped near Whitby.
His inquest at Whitby returned a verdict of manslaughter against some person unknown.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Dundee Courier - Wednesday 03 August 1921
see Hull Daily Mail - Wednesday 03 August 1921
see "Unsolved Murders." Times [London, England] 28 Dec. 1922: 3. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 4 Mar. 2013.
see Buckingham Advertiser and Free Press - Saturday 30 December 1922
see Diss Express - Friday 12 August 1921
see Lincolnshire Echo - Wednesday 03 August 1921