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Military service
Service number:
681423
Age:
30
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force
Division:
Mil. Hosps. Commission Command.
Birth:
October 12, 1886
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
July 12, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Lot 50. Sec. 14.
Additional information
Son of the late John and Jeanie Cron. (Parkdale Presbyterian Church Memorial).
Digital gallery of Private Robert Cron
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Memorial
Pte. Robert Cron's name was included on the Matthews-Blackwell Ltd. 1914 - 1918 Roll of Honour. He indicated on his military attestation that he was a bookkeeper. Matthews-Blackwell operated meat packing plants in Brantford, Hull, Montreal, Peterborough and Toronto. Image source: The Standard / Canada's Aid to the Allies and Peace Memorial. Edited by Frederick Yorston. Published by the Montreal Standard Publishing Co., Ltd., Montreal. This large Souvenir Edition magazine included Rolls of Honour for various prominent Canadian businesses. -
Newspaper Clipping
Robert Cron enlisted in the 170th Battalion C.E.F. in Toronto on March 10th, 1916. In honoured memory. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of ROBERT CRON
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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Private Robert Cron
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Cron
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Cron
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Cron
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 223 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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