Military service
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Private Robert Wallace Cruise
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Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper clipping
Clipping from Calgary Daily Herald May 5, 1916 -
Photo of Robert Wallace Cruise
aka Robin -
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 215 of 890. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of October 18, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist58y267uvic/mode/1up?view=theater
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 73 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY Somme, France
Contay is a village in the Department of the Somme on the main road, Amiens to Arras. The CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY lies on the left (north east) side of the road to Franvillers. There are no access problems. There is a CWGC road sign next to the church and square of the village and next to the D23, Franvillers - Corbie, sign. The distance from the CWGC sign to the Cemetery is approximately 650 metres.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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