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Private William Crooks

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Military service

Service number: 469389
Age: 29
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division: 21st BN
Birth: December 4, 1886 Clarkston, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Enlistment: Sydney, Nova Scotia
Death: September 15, 1916

Burial/memorial information

POZIERES BRITISH CEMETERY
Grave reference: I. H. 12.
Additional information
Son of James and Annie Crooks; husband of Annie Wilson Hamilton Crooks, of Larkhall, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 73 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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POZIERES BRITISH CEMETERY Somme, France

Pozieres is a village some 6 kilometres north-east of Albert, and the POZIERES BRITISH CEMETERY, which is enclosed by the Pozieres Memorial, is a little south-west of the village on the north side of the main road, D929, from Albert to Pozieres.

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