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15th Battalion, 17th Reinforcement, Australian Infantry, A.I.F.

He was 29 and the son of James and Jane Craig, of Iona Buildings, Scone, Scotland.

Address in Australia.
c/o Mrs Scott, Brisbane Street, Bulimba, Brisbane, Queensland

Enlistment date 15 November 1915
 
 
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/32/2

Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT SS Hawkes Bay on 20 April 1916

Age at embarkation 28
Place of death or wounding Pozieres, Somme Sector, France
 

War service: Western Front

He emigrated to Brisbane in 1913. His father was a tailor and Clothierin Scone.

Scone  (Scottish Gaelic: Sgàin; Scots: Scuin) is a town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. The medieval town of Scone, which grew up around the monastery and royal residence, was abandoned in the early 19th century when the residents were removed and a new palace was built on the site by the Earl of Mansfield. Hence the modern village of Scone, and the medieval village of Old Scone, can often be distinguished. Scone once played a crucial role in the formation and governance of the ancient Kingdom of Scotland. In the 9th century Kenneth MacAlpin came east to Scone, bringing with him a holy relic and coronation stone. As the stone was kept at Scone, it acquired the name, the Stone of Scone. The Stone of Scone (Scottish Gaelic: An Lia Fàil, Scots: Stane o Scuin)—also known as the Stone of Destiny, and often referred to in England as The Coronation Stone—is an oblong block of red sandstone that has been used for centuries in the coronation of the monarchs of Scotland, and later also when the monarchs of Scotland became monarchs of England as well as in the coronations of the monarchs of Great Britain and latterly of the United Kingdom following the acts of union.