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Private Robert Charles Anderson Crowder

Portrait of a soldier wearing peak hat.

Pte. Crowder
1918. The Christmas Echo: Honour Roll Number. LLSC.

CEF no. 802536

Crowder was nineteen years old when he enlisted with the 135th Canadian Infantry Battalion on 31 December 1915. He had worked as a clerk at Greene-Swift Clothing Manufacturers in London, ON. Private Crowder was appointed Acting Lance Corporal while en route to Great Britain, but reverted back to Pte. when he transferred to the 134th Btn. He joined the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles Regiment in May 1918. Sent to the field in August 1918, Pte. Crowder was killed in action on 29 September 1918 at the Battle of Canal du Nord- Cambrai.

He is commemorated on page 392 of the First World War Book of Remembrance (Memorial Chamber, Peace Tower, Parliament Hill).

Grave: Crest Cemetery, France.

Greene-Swift Clothing Manufacturers where Pte. Crowder worked 1914 Gardner, H.W., ed. London Ontario 1914. London, Ontario: London Free Press, ca. 1914.

Greene-Swift Clothing Manufacturers, Pte. Crowder’s Workplace
1914. Gardner, H.W., ed. London, ON, London Free Press.