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Military service
Service number:
10592
Age:
24
Rank:
Company Sergeant Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Division:
12th Coy.
Birth:
February 21, 1893
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
June 9, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. C. 15.
Additional information
Son of Mrs. S. Cross, of Sittingbourne, Kent, England.
Digital gallery of Company Sergeant Major John Benjamin Cross
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Pierre tombale de John B. Cross
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Coupure de presse
CSM John Benjamin Cross signed his military attestation at Valcartier Camp in Quebec on September 22nd, 1914. -
Registres de circonstances du décès
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CRABB TO CROSSLAND Microform Sequence 24; Volume Number 31829_B016733. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 168. Page 761 of 788. -
Coupure de presse
From the Toronto Telegram December 1914. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Coupure de presse
From the Toronto Telegram June 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Coupure de presse
From the Toronto Telegram June 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 223 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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