Military service
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Second Lieutenant Reginald Waring Lindsay Crawford
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Plaque
Pro Deo Et Patria Erected by the Royal Military College Club of Canada Anno Domini 1923. Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada. 969 Lieut Reginald Waring Lindsay Crawford (RMC 1914) was the only son of Frederick Lindsay Crawford and Harriet Clarke Penfold Crawford, of Montreal, Quebec. He served with the Royal Field Artillery Division: C Battery 63rd Brigade. He died on July 13, 1916. He was buried in the Abbreville Cemetery, Somme, France. -
Grave marker
969 Lieut Reginald Waring Lindsay Crawford (RMC 1914) was the only son of Frederick Lindsay Crawford and Harriet Clarke Penfold Crawford, of Montreal, Quebec. He served with the Royal Field Artillery Division: C Battery 63rd Brigade. He died on July 13, 1916. He was buried in the Abbreville Cemetery, Somme, France. -
Stained Glass Window
On their 50th anniversary the class of August 1915 at the Royal Military College of Canada have placed this memorial stained glass window to honour their fallen classmates. 969 Lieut Reginald Waring Lindsay Crawford (RMC 1914) was the only son of Frederick Lindsay Crawford and Harriet Clarke Penfold Crawford, of Montreal, Quebec. He served with the Royal Field Artillery Division: C Battery 63rd Brigade. He died on July 13, 1916. He was buried in the Abbreville Cemetery, Somme, France. -
Memorial Doll
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. -
University School Yearbook Photo
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Memorial Stair
Memorial stair, Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario -
Memorial Arch
Memorial arch, Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of July 16, 1916. Image taken from eb address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist58y187uvic#mode/1up.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 570 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY Somme, France
The town of Abbeville is on the main road from Paris to Boulogne, about 80 kilometres south of Boulogne. On reaching Abbeville from Boulogne on the N1 at the roundabout, take the right turn immediately before Boulogne Road direction.
A CWGC direction sign is on site. Enter the ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY by the left hand side main gate and follow CWGC signs within the Cemetery.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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