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Military service
Service number:
B/117602
Age:
31
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Death:
April 6, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XI. F. 14.
Additional information
Son of Thomas A. and Nellie Crawford; husband of Marie Edmee Crawford, of Kapuskasing, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Rifleman Thomas Edward Cornelius Crawford
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Gravemarker - photo 3
This is a photo of the temporary wooden marker on Rfn Crawford's grave at Holten Cemetery in the post-war period prior to the granite headstones being erected. -
Press Clipping
Copy of Rfn Crawford's first obituary from the Kapuskasing,Ontario newspaper in 1945. -
Gravemarker
This photo of Rfn Crawford's grave at Holten Cemetery in Holland was taken by his daughter Joan Crawford - Barrer in May, 2001. -
Gravemarker - photo 2
This original photo was taken in 1945, some time after the end of WW II by the owner of the Berendsen farm where the four riflemen were killed. One of the four Queen's Own soldiers to die there was, Rfn Ted Crawford. The other three were Rfn George Woodruff, Rfn Jim Aiken, and Rfn Joe McKenna. -
Grave Marker
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Thomas Edward Cornelius Crawford
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Thomas Edward Cornelius Crawford
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Thomas Edward Cornelius Crawford
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Thomas Edward Cornelius Crawford
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Thomas Edward Cornelius Crawford
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 506 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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