Name
George L’estrange – Cramer
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/07/1915
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Royal Munster Fusiliers
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY
II.J.8
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial, St. Peter’s Church Memorial, Mill End, Nr Rickmansworth, St. John's Church Memorial, Heronsgate, nr Rickmansworth, Not on the Chorleywood memorials
Pre War
George was born at Bayonne, New Jersey, USA on the 5th of November 1896. He was the second son of Adelaide Cramer and the late Major J Cramer of Cramer Court, Kinsale, County Cork and attended Cork Grammar School.
Major Cramer is believed to have died in 1907 in Sierra Leone. When George died his mother was living at Woodside Cottage, Shepherd’s Lane, Chorleywood.
Wartime Service
George joined 2nd Battalion from the 4th battalion in the field on the 7th of June 1915 as a Lieutenant and two days later became temporary Captain until the 11th of June.
On the 16th of June he was wounded in the head by gunshot during heavy shelling at Vermelles.
He died at 6 am on the 16th of July 1915 in 2nd Field Ambulance at Bethune.
Acknowledgments
Tanya Britton, Mike Collins, Malcolm Lennox
