Talk:John Croak

Untitled

there seems to be somethign wrong with this article it has his place of birth as in newfoundland, yet vetern affairs has it as glace bay http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collections/virtualmem/Detail&casualty=260164

also most of the citations used for this article are dead links.

That's because VAC (Veterans Affairs Canada) is going by Croak's Attestation Paper [1], on which he stated POB as "Glace Bay, CB" or Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Wikig39 (talk) 17:22, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Croak or Croke???

Consistancy, people! It's fine and dandy to start the article with "Croak" and keep it all the way until an explanation appears about the spelling:

The Newfoundland spelling of the name is "Croke," and that is also how it appears on Pvt. Croak's birth certificate. However, Pvt. Croak enlisted with this spelling, which remains on many of his official documents.

But then to switch back to "Croke" at the end...tsk tsk:

The medal

John Bernard Croke's medals are held by The Army Museum. The Army Museum is located on the second floor of the Cavalier Block in the Halifax Citadel Defence Complex, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Ergo, to be switched. Wikig39 (talk) 17:18, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Birthplace vs. home

Is there some reason that Croak is so strongly associated with Newfoundland in the article? The article clearly states that he moved to Nova Scotia at two years of age, and Glace Bay was likely the only home he ever knew. His own Attestation Paper (linked above) implies as much. Yet the article has been edited to show that he is "from" Newfoundland, and he is associated with a few categories which say the same. In my opinion, this is not accurate and should be changed. JimboM32 (talk) 02:21, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

No replies, so I'm changing it. If there is solid reasoning for having him so connected to Newfoundland in the article, please give us an outline. JimboM32 (talk) 00:42, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 3 external links on John Croak. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added {{dead link}} tag to http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/content/collections/VC/detail.cfm?casualty=260164
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20110606094229/http://collections.ic.gc.ca/courage/crokejohnbernard.html to http://collections.ic.gc.ca/courage/crokejohnbernard.html
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20070311014925/http://www.legionmagazine.com/features/victoriacross/05-09.asp?id=print to http://www.legionmagazine.com/features/victoriacross/05-09.asp?id=print
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20070927025713/http://ns1763.ca/cbrm/croakjb.html to http://ns1763.ca/cbrm/croakjb.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 11:24, 24 April 2017 (UTC)