Charles William Crosier

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

6668

Unit at enlistment:

1st Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Date of death:

July 15th, 1915

Cemetery:

Vimy Memorial - Pas de Calais, France

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Chatham-Kent

Birth city:

Chatham, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

Walkerville, Ontario

Next of kin address:

253 St. Clair Street, Chatham, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Labourer

Employer:

Ford Automobile Co.

Religious denominations:

Methodist

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Circumstances of service: Killed

Circumstances of Casualty: Killed in Action. Was instantly killed by an enemy bullet through the heart, on the night of June 15th, 1915.
Location of Unit at Time of Casualty: Givenchy.

BX June 30, 1915

Charles William Crosier - Local Man’s Son Killed

The sad intelligence was received in the city this morning of the death in action of Pte. Charles Crosier, Son of Mr. Fred Crosier, foreman of the painting department of the Brantford Carriage works. Mr. Crosier, who with Mrs. Crosier resides at 7 Egerton Street, was at work this morning when an official telegram from the Adjutant-General at Ottawa, apprising him of the death of his son, was handed to him. No further details were given, but it is thought that Pte. Crosier was killed in action during the recent fighting in Flanders in which many Western Ontario men met their fate, and in which Major Smith of Chatham Ont., a member of the same regiment to which Pte. Crosier belonged, was reported killed.

Private Crosier enlisted at Chatham, Ont., with the first contingent, he being a member of the No. 4 Company, First Battalion. At the outbreak of the war, he was visiting in Chatham from his home in Walkerville, Ont., where he was employed in the stock room of the Ford Automobile company. His parents have resided in Brantford for the past three years, coming to this city from Wisconsin. Mr. Fred Crosier has been connected with the Brantford Carriage works since that time.

A few days ago, Mr. Crosier was informed through a Canadian newspaper that his son was in an English hospital, suffering from an attack of spinal meningitis. He did not, however, put much faith in the report as he believed that his son was still on the firing line. The arrival of the official telegram this morning corroborates his belief. Private Crosier was a splendidly built athletic young man of 19 years and the news of his death has come as a great shock to his father and his many friends, but few of whom live in Brantford.