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Military service
Service number:
895141
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
50th Bn .
Enlistment:
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
October 26, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 28 - 30
Digital gallery of Private Thomas Parkinson Cracknell
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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 21 of 788. -
Memorial Plaque
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Inscription on Menin Gate Memorial
Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Menin Gate Memorial
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Memorial
Thomas is rememembered on the Christs Hospital School, Horsham, Surrey. He had been a pupil there with his brother Philip. He was the son of the Reverand Thomas Spicer Cracknell and Pleasance Cracknell nee Parkinson. He had emigrated to Calgary in April 1910 and either before or after his arrival married Maud (possibly nee Jacobs). Thomas enlisted with the Alberta regiment part of the 50th battalion CEF on 14th June 1916. He died on 26th October 1917 at Passchendaele and is remembered on the Menin Gate.
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Parkinson Cracknell
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Parkinson Cracknell
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Parkinson Cracknell
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Parkinson Cracknell
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Parkinson Cracknell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 222 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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