Hugh Dewey Crooks

Rank:

Corporal

Regimental number:

410067

Unit at enlistment:

38th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Date of death:

November 18th, 1916

Cemetery:

Regina Trench Cemetery - Somme, France - V.D.17.

Commemorated at:

Paris Presbyterian Church

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Waterloo

Birth city:

Ontario

Address at enlistment:

Capital, Saskatchewan

Next of kin address:

Saskatchewan

Trade or calling:

Steamfitter

Religious denominations:

Presbyterian

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

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Circumstances of service: Killed

Circumstances of Casualty: Killed in Action. Killed during an attack on Desire Trench from Regina Trench.
Location of Unit at Time of Casualty: Courcelette.

BX December 7, 1916

Former Paris Man Killed in Action – Acting Corp. Hugh Dewey Crooks Was Former Employee of Penman’s – Paris News Notes

PARIS, Dec. 7 – In yesterday’s casualty list as being reported killed in action appeared the name of Acting-Corporal Dewey Crooks, who enlisted at Capital, Saskatchewan. Corporal Crooks was a former resident of Paris, and when here was employed in Penman’s No. 2, mill, and was well and favorably known. Mrs. C. Shaughnessy, Washington Street, is a sister of deceased.