Richard Edward Cromwell

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

773093

Unit at enlistment:

125th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Date of death:

April 10th, 1917

Cemetery:

Lapugnoy Military Cemetery - Pas de Calais, France - III.B.1.

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Wellington

Birth city:

Harriston, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

356 St. Paul Avenue, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

Guelph, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Teamster

Religious denominations:

Methodist

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Circumstances of service: Killed

Circumstances of Casualty: Died of Wounds. Wounded in the hip by an enemy machine gun bullet during the attack on Vimy Ridge, on April 9th, 1917. He was attended to and evacuated to No. 18 Casualty Clearing Station where he succumbed to his wounds the following day.

BX April 26, 1917

Mrs. Jacob Cromwell, 175 Elgin Street, received word today that her nephew, Private Richard Edward Cromwell, who went overseas with the First Brant Battalion, had died of wounds. He leaves to mourn the loss but to rejoice in his glory, a father and mother six brothers and four sisters. He was but 23 years of age.