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Private WILLIAM CROOKSTON

Service Number: 216284
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Infantry

78th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 10 August 1918

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ROSIERES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

III. A. 20.

France

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of James and Janet Crookston; husband of Elizabeth Crookston, of 198, Darnley St., Pollokshields, Glasgow. Late Clerk with Canadian National Rlys., Winnipeg. Born at Glasgow, Scotland.
  • Personal Inscription HE GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP
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Buried or commemorated at

ROSIERES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 440
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