• First World War Commemorative Project
• Introduction
• The Memorial Service
• About the Project

Born	May 10, 1899
Died	October 12, 1918, Age 19
Force	Army
Division	3rd Bn., Canadian Engineers
Home Address	674 Euclid Avenue [Map]

Melville Crawford, his parents’ only son, was born in Toronto and became a teller with the Canadian Bank of Commerce after leaving UTS in 1915. He enlisted in May 1918 with the Canadian Engineers and completed his preliminary training before going overseas in September. While in England, he contracted pneumonia and died at the Devonport Military Hospital, less than a month before the end of the war. He is buried in the Plymouth (Efford) Cemetery in England.

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