Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram November 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram January 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Telegram July 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Photo of JOHN CROOK – Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.

Newspaper Clipping – Pte. John Crook enlisted in Toronto's 83rd Battalion, C.E.F. on August 16th, 1915. He was subsequently assigned to the 3rd Battalion, Central Ontario Regiment. In grateful memory.

Newspaper Clipping – This article mentions Pte. John Crook, 172135, who died on October 8th, 1916. Pte. John Crook was born in Birkenhead, northwest England, on September 28th, 1888. He indicated on his Canadian military attestation that he worked as a carpenter and had prior military experience with the 1st Cheshire Regiment. He enlisted in Toronto on August 16th, 1915 with the 83rd Battalion CEF. His brother was Pte. Stephen Henry Crook, 285366, who enlisted with the 220th York Rangers in Toronto on May 29th, 1916. Pte. S. H. Crook was also born in Birkenhead, England, on December 24th, 1886 and worked as a painter. (Source: Military Attestations, National Archives of Canada).

Memorial – Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.

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 683 of 788. Exhumed from between Pys and Le Sars, 6 3/4 miles North East of Albert and re-interred in ADANAC MILITARY CEMETERY.

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