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Military service
Service number:
117212
Age:
27
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles (British Columbia Regt.)
Birth:
December 21, 1888
Enlistment:
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
June 3, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 30 and 32
Additional information
Son of George Crees; husband of Mary Crees, of 7, Huddleston Rd., Tufnell Park, London, England.
Digital gallery of Private Richard Crees
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Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Inscription on Menin Gate 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 437 of 788. Buried at side of communication trench near Maple Copse.
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Crees
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Crees
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Crees
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 72 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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