Edgar S. Crouthamel

SECOND LIEUTENANT EDGAR S. CROUTHAMEL was born on February 2, 1920 to the Reverend Edgar C. and Gertrude Crouthamel. His family moved to Gloucester City NJ sometime after 1930. He was a graduate of 1937 Haddon Heights (NJ) High School and Drexel Institute in Philadelphia PA. He starred in baseball and football while at Drexel, leading the team in scoring as a wide receiver.

Edgar Crouthamel entered the Army and qualified for service in the Army Air Force. He qualified for flight duty, and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant at Stockton Field CA on June 18, 1943. He was then assigned to fly two-engine transports and was based in Boise ID prior to being assigned to a bomber crew, flying B-24 bombers. He had completed 18 missions when, on April 2, 1944, he was killed when his plane crashed in England on the return leg of an air raid on Germany.

Edgar Crouthamel was survived by his parents, of 927 Gaunt Street, Gloucester City NJ, his wife, the former Rena E. Mickle, of 305 South Girard Street in Woodbury NJ, a brother John D. Crouthamel, and five sisters. One sister was Gertrude M. Crouthamel Eadline. Two of Gertrude's brothers-in-law would also be killed while serving in the armed forces during World War II, Lloyd Eadline, and Allan Eadline. 

Edgar S. Crouthamel was one of six members of Haddon Heights High School's class of 1937 to lose their lives while serving in the United States armed forces during World War II, the others being William C. Tait, Oscar Kline, William Raws, Warren Stafford Jr., and Oliver F. Starr Jr.. Another member of the Class of 1939, Carlton R. Rouh, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Edgar Crouthamel was brought back to New Jersey after the war, and he rests in Locustwood Cemetery in what is now Cherry Hill NJ, next to his parents.

July 15, 1948