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James Burnet CRAIG

Regimental number4780
Place of birthPerth, Scotland
SchoolGeorge Watson, Edinburgh
ReligionPresbyterian
OccupationEngineer
Address75 Addis Street, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Marital statusMarried
Age at embarkation43
Next of kinWife, Mrs H Craig, 75 Addis Street, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Enlistment date7 December 1915
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name16th Battalion, 15th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/33/3
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A38 Ulysses on 1 April 1916
Rank from Nominal RollCorporal
Unit from Nominal Roll48th Battalion
FateDied of wounds 17 November 1916
Place of death or woundingFrance
Age at death50
Age at death from cemetery records43
Place of burialHeilly Station Cemetery (Plot VI, Row B, Grave No. 2), Mericourt-L-'Abbe, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
145
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: David and Anna CRAIG; husband of Hilda CRAIG, 163 Addis Street Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Native of Perth, Scotland
Other details

War service: Western Front

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

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