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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
111118
Age:
23
Rank:
Company Sergeant Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
September 18, 1893
Enlistment:
Saint John, New Brunswick
Death:
October 1, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of C. W. and Ellen M. Crawford, of Apohaqui, King's County, New Brunswick.
Additional citations
Military Medal
Digital gallery of Company Sergeant Major Merton Crawford
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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 367 of 788. Body not recovered for burial. -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Inscription
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Merton Crawford of New Brunswick enlisted in the Canadian Mounted Rifles in March 1915, and went missing in action during the last weeks of the Somme campaign in 1916. Mourning card 11.7cm x 7.9cm Ley and Lois Smith War, Memory and Popular Culture Research Collection - The University of Western Ontario - London, Ontario -
Memorial
Merton Crawford of New Brunswick enlisted in the Canadian Mounted Rifles in March 1915, and went missing in action during the last weeks of the Somme campaign in 1916. Mourning card 11.7cm x 7.9cm Ley and Lois Smith War, Memory and Popular Culture Research Collection - The University of Western Ontario - London, Ontario -
Newspaper clipping
From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Daily Telegraph newspaper c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Daily Telegraph newspaper c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major Merton Crawford
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major Merton Crawford
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major Merton Crawford
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major Merton Crawford
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major Merton Crawford
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major Merton Crawford
Digital gallery of
Company Sergeant Major Merton Crawford
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 72 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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