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Military service
Service number:
201769
Age:
26
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
March 11, 1892
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
August 9, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. I. 5.
Additional information
Husband of Hilma Crane, of 118, Arundel Avenue, Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private John Edward Crane
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Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper Clipping
This article about the Crane brothers appeared in the Toronto Evening Telegram on September 19th, 1917. The Crane family, originally from Leicester, England, made a significant contribution to the war effort. According to this article, in addition to John and George Crane, their father and a brother, Pte. Albert Crane, all served during the war. In honoured memory of the Crane family. -
Newspaper Clipping
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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 227 of 788. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Group Photo
An unidentified group photo taken in France of 13 men transferred from the 95th Battalion to the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles. As of right now, 5 of the 13 have been identified with relative positivity based on facial comparisons. They are Robert Miles Richardson standing as the first man in the back row, Harry Bernard Ferris standing third in the back row, George Crane sitting first in the middle row, John Edward Crane sitting next to his brother second in the middle row, and William Robert Loveys sitting as the third man in middle row. Currently in the collection of Andrew Webb-Trezzi -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private John Edward Crane
Digital gallery of
Private John Edward Crane
Digital gallery of
Private John Edward Crane
Digital gallery of
Private John Edward Crane
Digital gallery of
Private John Edward Crane
Digital gallery of
Private John Edward Crane
Digital gallery of
Private John Edward Crane
Digital gallery of
Private John Edward Crane
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 391 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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