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Military service
Service number:
28608
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
16th Bn.
Birth:
March 20, 1891
Death:
May 18, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Private Alexander Semple Crookston
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Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of July 29, 1915. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist57y198uvic#mode/1up -
Cross of Sacrifice
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 713 of 788. -
Memorial
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)
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander Semple Crookston
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander Semple Crookston
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander Semple Crookston
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 10 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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