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Son of Robert John Bradshaw Crombie and Susan Parker Crombie, of Toronto, Ontario. Brother of Lieutenant Charles Stuart Grenville Crombie who died of his wounds on July 9, 1917, while serving with the of the 5th Battalion.
Vincent enlisted in October of 1914 and arrived in France in September of 1915. He was wounded at the Somme Front in September of 1916. On October 11, 1918, he was wounded in an action for which he was awarded the Military Cross and later died of wounds on October 26, 1918.
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Lieutenant Vincent Robert Alexander Crombie, MC attended St. Andrew's College in Aurora, Ontario, from 1913-1914. This picture is from the St. Andrew's College Review, Memorial Number, June 1919.
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Vincent R. A. Crombie is remembered on the family monument located in St. James Cemetery, Parliament Street, Toronto. Photographed May 2003.
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Lieutenant Vincent Robert Alexander Crombie
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Lieutenant Vincent Robert Alexander Crombie
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Lieutenant Vincent Robert Alexander Crombie
World War One memorial tablet, St. Paul's (Anglican), Bloor St. East, Toronto, Ontario. One of two memorial tablets set within a spectacular carved alabaster chancel screen. Erected in memory of the men of St. Paul's who died during the first World War and unveiled in March 1926. Each alabaster tablet incorporates mosaic work depicting kneeling angels holding a laurel wreath and a torch. Seventy-six names in total were listed by date of death. Inscribed: 'IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE', and from The Very Reverend Cyril Alington: 'And us they trusted. We the task inherit / The unfinished task for which their lives were spent / But leaving us a portion of their spirit / They gave their witness and they died content.'
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Lieutenant Vincent Robert Alexander Crombie
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 641 of 788.
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Lieutenant Vincent Robert Alexander Crombie
10 August 2019, CEFRG (Canadian Expeditionary Force Research Group) https://cefrg.ca
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Lieutenant Vincent Robert Alexander Crombie
From the Toronto Telegram July 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lieutenant Vincent Robert Alexander Crombie
From the Toronto Telegram October 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lieutenant Vincent Robert Alexander Crombie, MC attended St. Andrew's College in Aurora, Ontario, from 1913-1914. This picture is from the St. Andrew's College Review, Memorial Number, June 1919.
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Vincent R. A. Crombie is remembered on the family monument located in St. James Cemetery, Parliament Street, Toronto. Photographed May 2003.
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World War One memorial tablet, St. Paul's (Anglican), Bloor St. East, Toronto, Ontario. One of two memorial tablets set within a spectacular carved alabaster chancel screen. Erected in memory of the men of St. Paul's who died during the first World War and unveiled in March 1926. Each alabaster tablet incorporates mosaic work depicting kneeling angels holding a laurel wreath and a torch. Seventy-six names in total were listed by date of death. Inscribed: 'IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE', and from The Very Reverend Cyril Alington: 'And us they trusted. We the task inherit / The unfinished task for which their lives were spent / But leaving us a portion of their spirit / They gave their witness and they died content.'
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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 641 of 788.
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10 August 2019, CEFRG (Canadian Expeditionary Force Research Group) https://cefrg.ca
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From the Toronto Telegram July 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram October 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Page 391 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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