DESPITE only being a collection of small villages with a population of less than 10,000 at the outbreak of the First World War, Crawley has its fair share of heroes.Chief among them was Louisa Constance Colt-Williams – a young nurse who was held as a prisoner of war by the Germans for more than five months after refusing to abandon the wounded soldiers she was treating in France.Miss Colt-Williams, who lived in the Old Rectory in Ifield, was awarded the Croix De Guerre (The Cross of War)...
