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Military service
Service number:
McG/160
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
May 31, 1895
Oxford County, Ontario
Enlistment:
June 2, 1915
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
June 2, 1916
Sanctuary Wood, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10
Additional information
Son of Andrew and Sarah Catherine Cross, of Hamilton, Ontario.
Additional citations
1914-15 Star
Digital gallery of Private Russell Andrew Cross
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Honour Roll
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Monuement
Pte. Russell Andrew Cross is remembered on the Cross family monument, Hamilton Cemetery, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. -
Inscription
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Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Photo of Russell Andrew Cross
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1916. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
The Soldiers' Tower
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto between 1919-1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. The names of the fallen were carved on the Memorial Screen seen at photo left. Photo: K. Parks -
Memorial
Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010; courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
Memorial
Inscription in Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower. The carillon was installed in 1927. Originally there were 23 bells. Alumni and friends donated funds for bells in memory of those who fell in the Great War. Dedications are carved high on the walls of the Memorial Room. Bell XXI is dedicated: " 'Extol, ye bell, the virtue of our valorous men.' Alumni Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering". Photo courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
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 765 of 788. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator 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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