James CRAGG

Main CPGW Record

Surname: CRAGG

Forename(s): James

Place of Birth: Dent, Yorkshire

Service No: 29812

Rank: Private

Regiment / Corps / Service: Northumberland Fusiliers

Battalion / Unit: 21st (Service) Battalion. (2nd Tyneside Scottish)

Division: 34th Division

Age: 33

Date of Death: 1917-09-09

Awards: ---

CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 10 B 11 B and 12 B.

CWGC Cemetery: ---

CWGC Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Non-CWGC Burial: ---

Local War Memorial: SEDBERGH, YORKSHIRE

Additional Information:

James Cragg was the son of Joseph Henry and Annas Cragg, née Dixon and brother of Private Thomas Cragg (13029) (q.v.). Both of their parents were born at Dent, Yorkshire.

1891 Cautley cum Dowbiggin, Yorkshire Census: Broadyeat - James Cragg, aged 7 years, born Dent, Yorkshire son of Joseph H. and Annas Cragg.

1901 Sedbergh, Yorkshire Census: Stone Hall, Soolbank - James Cragg, aged 16 years, born Sedbergh. [James was employed by Richard Penrith, Farmer.]

1911 Sedbergh, Yorkshire Census: Settlebeck - James Cragg, aged 27 years, born Dent, Yorkshire, son of Annas Cragg, widow.

James was married to Ada Phillipson Atkinson in 1912.

British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte James Cragg, 29812, North'd Fus. Pres. dead.

British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte James Cragg, 29812, 21st North'd Fus. Pres. dead.

Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte James Cragg, 29812, 21st Bn North'd Fus. Date and Place of Death: On or since 9.9.17. Death pres'd. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Widow: Ada P. £1 13s. 5d. Self and children. War Gratuity: Widow - Ada P. £4 10s. 0d.

UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: card(s) exist for James. Name(s) on card(s): Widow: Ada Phillipson, born 13.5.86. Address 1. Hall Bank, Sedbergh. Address 2. 10, Chapel Street, Appleby, Westmoreland [sic]. Address 3. Garlands Asylum [Carlisle, Cumberland]. Children: Dorothy, born 10.12.13. Evelyn, born 1.7.17.

In 1921 Ada and her daughters were living with her mother, Mary Ann Atkinson, at Scattergate, Appleby, Westmorland. In 1939 Ada and her daughters were living at the same address. Both daughters were later to marry: Dorothy in 1944 to Horace Furniss and Evelyn in 1954 to George F. Metcalfe.

James is commemorated in the Rolls of Honour at the Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh.

A short biography of James is included in: ‘Sedbergh and District 1914-1918 – But who shall return the children?’ Compiled by Sedbergh and District History Society. Edited by Diane Elphick (2016).

Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry

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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---

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