Lance Corporal Robert Craig

Lance Corporal Robert Craig, 2nd Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He died in France, aged 36, on 4th May 1915 of wounds received in the murderous fighting near “Hill 60” ( part of the Second Battle of Ypres) and is buried in Boulougne Eastern Cemetery, France. He was the first Eyemouth serviceman to die in the Great War. He had been born in Eyemouth and was the son of Robert and the late Agnes Craig of 2 George Wynd, Eyemouth He had been a Regular Soldier and had served with the Seaforth Highlanders for eight years in Egypt and India.  In September 1914 he re enlisted in the K.O.S.B. and joined the Battalion in France in December 1914.The intensity of the fighting at “Hill 60” saw casualties of over 8,000 men in the incessant attack and counter attacks. The Hill was the most notorious spot in the whole of the Ypres Salient in the spring of 1915 and the artist has tried to depict this.

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