Military service
Service number:
81194
Age:
26
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
8th Bn.
Birth:
May 16, 1889
Manitou, Manitoba
Enlistment:
December 15, 1914
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
August 15, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. B. 9.
Additional information
Brother of Thomas Edward Crozier of Altamont, Manitoba.
Brother of Private Daniel Crozier, who was killed in action on April 9, 1917, while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment).
Digital gallery of Private William Crozier
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Photo of William Crozier
Taken Just before leaving for England. With permission of his living nephew -
Circumstances of death registers
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 203 of 890. Originally buried in Rosenberg Chateau Military Cemetery. In 1930 the bodies of soldiers buried in this cemetery were exhumed, when it was established that these sites could not be acquired in perpetuity, and were re-interred in BERKS CEMETERY EXTENSION. -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Entrance
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Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England
Digital gallery of
Private William Crozier
Digital gallery of
Private William Crozier
Digital gallery of
Private William Crozier
Digital gallery of
Private William Crozier
Digital gallery of
Private William Crozier
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 11 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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