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Military service
Service number:
58237
Age:
27
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
"A" Coy. 20th Bn.
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
September 15, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crosby, of Toronto; husband of Marguerite D. Redding (formerly Crosby), of Birch Cliff Heights, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Norman Crosby
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Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper Clipping 2
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Photo of Norman Crosby
Norman Crosby in May, 1915 heading to France. -
Photo of Norman Crosby
Norman Crosby, age 20. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of NORMAN CROSBY
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. From the Annie Boyes collection courtesy of the Simcoe County Archives. http://www.simcoe.ca/dpt/arc -
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 729 of 788. Killed near Courcelette in Walker Avenue, 50 yards from its junction with front line. -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 73 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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