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Military service
Service number:
475812
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Division:
3rd (University) Coy. P.P.C.L.I.
Enlistment:
Edmonton, Alberta
Death:
June 24, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10
Additional information
Only son of Richard T. and Emma Louise Crawford (nee Holtby), of Edmonton, Alberta.
Digital gallery of Private Laurence Holtby Crawford
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Photo of Laurence Crawford
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Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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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 363 of 788. Buried at Bezirk, Zillebeke. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 1 issue of the Edmonton Journal c.July 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 1 issue of the Edmonton Journal c.July 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Laurence Holtby Crawford
Digital gallery of
Private Laurence Holtby Crawford
Digital gallery of
Private Laurence Holtby Crawford
Digital gallery of
Private Laurence Holtby Crawford
Digital gallery of
Private Laurence Holtby Crawford
Digital gallery of
Private Laurence Holtby Crawford
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 72 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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