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Military service
Service number:
814664
Age:
31
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Royal Canadian Regiment
Birth:
May 4, 1885
Glasgow, Scotland
Enlistment:
Cobourg, Ontario
Death:
April 10, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. A. 2.
Additional information
Son of George and Barbara Cruickshank, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private George Cruickshank
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Coupure de presse
Pte. George Cruickshank is mentioned in this article about his brother, Pte. James H. Cruickshank. Article dated March 27th, 1918, Toronto Evening Telegram. -
139th Battalion (Northumberland County) War Memorial plaque, 1919. 130 names of men who originally enlisted with this Ontario unit. On display at the Victoria Hall, 55 King Street West, Cobourg, Ontario. Also shown - Cobourg (Ontario) War Memorial at Victoria Park. -
Coupure de presse
Pte. George Cruickshank was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He enlisted on February 3rd, 1916, in Cobourg, Ontario. -
Photo de GEORGE CRUICKSHANK
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Mémorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Registres de circonstances du décès
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Crossley to Cyrs. Microform Sequence 25; Volume Number 31829_B016734. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 169. Page 207 of 890. -
Coupure de presse
From the Toronto Telegram April 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Coupure de presse
From the Vancouver Daily Province August 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private George Cruickshank
Digital gallery of
Private George Cruickshank
Digital gallery of
Private George Cruickshank
Digital gallery of
Private George Cruickshank
Digital gallery of
Private George Cruickshank
Digital gallery of
Private George Cruickshank
Digital gallery of
Private George Cruickshank
Digital gallery of
Private George Cruickshank
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 223 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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