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Military service
Service number:
776020
Age:
37
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
20th Bn.
Birth:
November 11, 1879
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
November 10, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 24 - 26 - 30
Additional information
Son of Mary Crosier, of 51, Florence St., Toronto; husband of Minnie A. Crosier, of 38, Raglan Avenue, Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Robert John Crosier
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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 739 of 788. Buried at a “Pill Box” near Company Headquarters about 50 yards from new front line. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 223 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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