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Search for a soldier’s family u by Paul Campbell
A wartime memorial plaque found during a house renovation has led to the Oxford RSA searching for any living family or relatives of Private Robert Joseph Crossen, who died in France 101 years ago.
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p Oxford RSA member Rhonda Graham-van Rooden, with the Memorial Plaque or ‘Dead Man’s Penny’
Private Crossen’s serial number was 46559, and he served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Canterbury Regiment, First Battalion and died on December 3, 1917. “I believe Robert is listed on the Leeston Cenotaph,” says Oxford RSA member, Rhonda Graham-van Rooden. “We have in our possession the Memorial Plaque also known as the
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Dead Man’s Penny, issued after the first world war to the next-of-kin of all British and Empire service personnel who were killed. This bears Robert Joseph Crossen’s name, and I am hoping to reunite this with any living members of the serviceman’s family, hopefully on November 11.” On the Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph database, Robert
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was listed as a labourer before enlistment. His mother was Mrs Ellen Crossen (nee Scully), of 24 Hastings Street, Sydenham, Christchurch. His brother George Lawrence Crossen died in 1919 and is buried in the Lincoln Cemetery, Selwyn District.
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