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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
5634
Age:
26
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Engineers
Division:
1st Div. Signal Coy.
Birth:
February 19, 1891
Manchester, Lancashire, England
Enlistment:
September 23, 1914
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
December 25, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
L. 31.
Additional information
Son of Thomas and Annie Ellen Craven, of Manchester, England; husband of Bertha Mary Craven, of Hamilton Bay, Port Chalmers, New Zealand. Came to England with the first division in 1914, and went to France on 10 February 1915.
Additional citations
Military Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Corporal Thomas Reynold Craven
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Newspaper Clipping
A member of the first Canadian Contingent. In honoured memory. -
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 295 of 788. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1914. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram January 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 222 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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