Source: Via newspaper search at Huron County newspaper database. Exact date and newspaper not known.
Brother to Private James Onslow Crich, reg. no. 654027, who also served with the 18th Battalion.
Family Search: When Private Wilfred Victor Crich was born on 4 October 1898, in Clinton, Huron, Ontario, Canada, his father, Onslow Crich, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Glauzier, was 28. He married Adelaide Winnifred Jackson on 8 June 1921, in Gore Bay, Manitoulin, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Huron, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years and Sheffield Township, Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada in 1931. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 18, his occupation is listed as student. He died on 23 January 1987, at the age of 88, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
In 2014, his grandson donated an album of the earliest examples of Crich’s photography, documenting his departure from Clinton, Ontario, at the age of sixteen to serve in the First World War. The tiny sepia-toned photographs taken between 1916 and 1919 are accompanied by handwritten, white-ink captions that record the names of soldiers, friends and sergeants, as well as the various camps and locations the troops passed through during their training and service in Ontario and England.
Crich was awarded the Military Cross [Military Medal] and continued to wear a service pin throughout his teaching career. Until a fire destroyed the structure in 1979, the Banff Centre’s photography and visual arts building was named in Crich’s honour.
Pictured here are scans from Crich’s photo album and World War I journal, courtesy of our Paul D Fleck Library and Archives.
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History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 