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Military service
Service number:
L/106968
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada
Death:
December 20, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. C. 5.
Additional information
Son of John Crellin, and of Effie Crellin, of Welwyn, Saskatchewan.
Digital gallery of Private Charles Melvyn Crellin
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Grave Marker
The picture is from the War Cementry in Groesbeek Netherlands. <P> He died with Robert Cameron on December 20, 1944 in Kalkar Germany. Both men served with the Queen`s Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada. <P> This is the text on the grave of Charles Melvin Crellin .<P> With a cheery smile a wave of the hand he wandered into an unknown land -
Photo of Charles Crellin
A part of his regiment has the kitchen for the soldiers by my father in the garden that was in Mook Molenhoek near Groesbeek -
Document
This was an agreement from my father to adopt the grave of Charles Melvin Crellin -
Photo of CHARLES MELVYN CRELLIN
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Private Charles Melvyn Crellin
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Melvyn Crellin
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Melvyn Crellin
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Melvyn Crellin
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 282 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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