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Military service
Service number:
153518
Age:
19
Rank:
Cadet
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Air Force
Enlistment:
Mono Mills, Ontario
Death:
July 2, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Forest Sect., Plot 25, Grave 10
Additional information
Son of Hugh George and Jessie D. Crozier, of Mono Mills, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Cadet George Chester Crozier
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Newspaper Clipping
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Monument
Orangeville (Dufferin County) Ontario War Memorial. -
Family Memorial
Cadet Crozier is also commemorated on this family monument in the Forest Lawn Cemetery, outside Orangeville, Ontario. (This image was taken by Gregory J. Barker of Barrie, Ontario, in 2012. It may be copied and used without further permission.) -
Inscription
A panel on the Crozier family's monument on which Cadet G. Chester Crozier is commemorated. (This image was taken by Gregory J. Barker of Barrie, Ontario, in 2012. It may be copied and used without further permission.) -
Grave Marker
The grave of Cadet G.C. Crozier (who was killed in a flying accident), marked by a Commonwealth War Graves Commission stone, in the Forest Lawn Cemetery, Mono, Ontario, just outside Orangeville. A personal inscription near the bottom of the stone reads: "PER ARDUA AD ASTRA" (i.e. the Royal Air Force motto, traditionally translated as "Through Adversity to the Stars.") (This image was taken by Gregory J. Barker of Barrie, Ontario, in 2012. It may be copied and used without further permission.) -
Newspaper Clipping
This report appeared in the July 11, 1918 issue of the Northern Advance newspaper (Barrie, Ontario) at page 6. Note: Camp Hoare, named after Lieutenant-Colonel (later Brigadier-General) C.G. Hoare, commanding officer of the Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force in Canada, was the RAF airfield at Camp Borden, west of Barrie, Ontario.
Digital gallery of
Cadet George Chester Crozier
Digital gallery of
Cadet George Chester Crozier
Digital gallery of
Cadet George Chester Crozier
Digital gallery of
Cadet George Chester Crozier
Digital gallery of
Cadet George Chester Crozier
Digital gallery of
Cadet George Chester Crozier
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 585 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ORANGEVILLE (FOREST LAWN) CEMETERY Ontario, Canada
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