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Military service
Service number:
216284
Age:
54
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
78th Bn.
Birth:
February 10, 1864
Glasgow, Scotland
Enlistment:
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
August 10, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. A. 20.
Additional information
Son of James and Janet Crookston; husband of Elizabeth Crookston, of Pollokshields, Glasgow. Late Clerk with Canadian National Rlys., Winnipeg.
Digital gallery of Private William Crookston
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Roll of Honour
Canadian National Railways - World War One Roll of Honour. In honoured memory. -
Circumstances of death registers
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 715 of 788.
Digital gallery of
Private William Crookston
Digital gallery of
Private William Crookston
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 391 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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