Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 31

W ORLD W AR O NE (1914 - 1918) INCLUDING THOSE WHO DIED LATER AS A RESULT OF THIS WAR

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

Name JOHN ARNOTT TAYLOR CRAIG (Sec Lt)

Lef SES 1912

Roll Number 1324 Died 01:07:1916

Set / House C

Arrive SES 1909

Where SCHWABEN REDOUBT, BELGIUM Serving with 11TH, INNISKILLING FUSILIERS

Age 22

Buried Connaught Cemetery, Thiepval, Picardie, France Remembered

Glencraig Parish Church of Ireland Church (Holy Trinity), Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club, Royal Belfast Golf Club, Holywood, Thiepval Memorial, The St. Edward’s School Chapel (Wooden Plaque) and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born in Crawfordsburn, County Down, Northern Ireland in 1894, his School career show nothing especially noteworthy from the records that survive. He was in the Upper Moderns Form on leaving. After leaving school, he joined the Belfast linen trade at McCrum, Watson & Mercer Ltd, and at the same time served as a part-time Ulster Volunteer Officer with the North Down Regiment before The Great War. He was a married man with two children. With the outbreak of war he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 11th Donegal & Fermanagh Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in November 1914. Within a year he was with his regiment in Belgium. He was killed in action near Albert, Belgium on the first day of the Somme Offensive 1916 at the Schwaben Redoubt, Thiepval Wood, Belgium.