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Military service
Service number:
127538
Age:
25
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
4th Bn.
Birth:
November 19, 1891
Grangemouth, Scotland
Enlistment:
November 4, 1915
Galt, Ontario
Death:
September 16, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. R. 19.
Additional information
Husband of Jean Walter Crosson and father of John Lindsay Crosson of Galt, Ontario. Brother-in-law of Margaret Pollock of Galt, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Thomas Crosson
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Galt War Memorial
The Cambridge (Galt) War Memorial, Queen's Square, Cambridge, Ontario. Circa 1930. Frances Loring and William Lyon Somerville.<P> Inscribed:"TO THEM ALL HONOUR / GUARD YE THEIR VICTORY / 1914-1918 / 1939-1945 / 1950-1953." -
Close up of Galt War Memorial
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Photo of Thomas Crosson
In memory of the men and women from the Waterloo area who went to war and did not come home. From the booklet, Peace Souvenir – Activities of Waterloo County in the Great War 1914 – 1918. From the Toronto Public Library collection. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Waterloo Memorial Booklet
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Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press October 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Biography
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 223 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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