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Lieutenant Vincent Robert Alexander Crombie

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Military service

Age: 21
Rank: Lieutenant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division: 19th Battalion
Enlistment: Ontario
Death: October 26, 1918

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: XLVIII. A. 7.
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Son of Robert John Bradshaw Crombie and Susan Parker Crombie, of Toronto, Ontario. Brother of Lieutenant Charles Stuart Grenville Crombie who died of his wounds on July 9, 1917, while serving with the of the 5th Battalion.

Vincent enlisted in October of 1914 and arrived in France in September of 1915. He was wounded at the Somme Front in September of 1916. On October 11, 1918, he was wounded in an action for which he was awarded the Military Cross and later died of wounds on October 26, 1918.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 391 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. The Etaples Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne.

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