Source: Gathering Our Heroes
Family Search: When Private Robert Crone was born on 11 June 1883, in Annan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, William Crone, was 38 and his mother, Robina Bell, was 38. He married Jane Byers in 1900, in Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He immigrated to Canada in 1912. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1919, his occupation is listed as shipping clerk in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He died on 25 March 1949, in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 65, and was buried in Maple Leaf Cemetery, Chatham, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada.
Wounded by shell bursting in road August 21, 1918.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 