Uncovering My Father's Silence
My father, James Craig died when I was seven years old and unfortunately the family did not talk about his war years. The information that I now know I gleaned from items found in the house. These consisted of three medals: the Silver War Badge, the British War Medal (known as the Squeak) and a third medal that I could not identify. There was an Army Form with James’ war record details on it along with his war number and a description on leaving the colours.
James Craig joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on the 26th October 1915 and became a Lance Corporal. He was on an expeditionary force from February to June 1916 when he was wounded and I have a postcard which he had sent to his sister from where he was convalescing.
Medals ; employment record ; service record ; postcard ; discharge papers
CONTRIBUTOR
Dympna Craig
DATE
1915-10-26 - 1918-01-22
LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
1
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
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