Crockart, Frank A Junior

Crockart, Frank A junior (21 brother?) 17 Riverside, Stirling, apprentice accountant in Glasgow, influenced by Christ & also by Carlyle, Emerson & Norman Angell, registered as CO 6/39, CO to combat but now Britain at war would do NCS preferably RAMC, EDT 16/11/39 postponed to after  his final Chartered Accountants exams in May then NCS (Pay Corps recommended) EEN 16/11/39 p9, SCO 17/11 p5, SO 21/11/39 p8; Stirling County Cricket Club members 28/3/40 had long debate about expelling him from the team & the club as a CO, 2 tea ladies & one or two members said they would otherwise boycott the club but club captain Lt J B Jones & official Lt R M Dun opposed banning him, the matter was referred to the committee who could call a special meeting SO 4/4/40 p5, GEN 29/3 p7 but CO not named; Frank Crockart wrote to the paper confirming he was the cricketer involved & giving correct details about his tribunal, since he had been called a Bolshevik he denied he had ever had any sympathy with the Communist Party, Richard Barton of Stirling also wrote in his defence, SO 9/4/40 p2 & 11/4 p5, DR 10/4/40 p15; SO’s News Review welcomes news that the cricket club are dropping moves against Crockart & comments that ‘there is no use in being Mr Facing Bothways paying lip service to freedom & democracy yet urging the mob to tear every Conchie limb from limb’, SO 16/4/40 p5 &18/4 p5