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Military service
Service number:
2137844
Age:
31
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
April 24, 1887
South Canotia, Frontenac, Ontario
Enlistment:
November 10, 1917
Nanaimo, British Columbia
Death:
September 27, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. E. 15.
Additional information
Son of Oswald Edward and Susannah Cruse of Keating, British Columbia. Brother of Oswald, George, Leonard, Clarissa, Richard and Geoffrey.
Digital gallery of Private Charles Camige Cruse
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Memorial
This hall was built by local citizens including some First World War veterans and was dedicated in a ceremony on 11 November 1922. Mrs. Sybil Taylor, the mother of one of the dead, unveiled the plaque located inside the hall in November 1971. -
War Memorial
This hall was built by local citizens including some First World War veterans and was dedicated in a ceremony on 11 November 1922. Mrs. Sybil Taylor, the mother of one of the dead, unveiled the plaque located inside the hall in November 1971. -
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 233 of 890. -
Grave Marker
A photo of my Great Uncle Charlie’s gravestone in the cemetery at Sains-les-Marquion near Cambrai. Site of battle of Nord du Canal
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Camige Cruse
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Camige Cruse
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Camige Cruse
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Camige Cruse
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 392 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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