George Henry CRAIGEN

Regimental number	3059
School	Auburn State School, Victoria
Other training	Nil
Religion	Presbyterian
Occupation	Carpenter
Address	Methsold, Traralgon, Victoria
Marital status	Single
Age at embarkation	25
Next of kin	Father, James Craigen, 23 Hainie Street, Hawthorn, Victoria
Enlistment date	9 September 1915
Rank on enlistment	Private
Unit name	23rd Battalion, 7th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number	23/40/2
Embarkation details	Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A73 Commonwealth on 26 November 1915
Rank from Nominal Roll	Private
Unit from Nominal Roll	14th Field Artillery Brigade
Fate	Killed in Action 30 September 1917
Place of death or wounding	Ypres, Belgium
Age at death	27
Age at death from cemetery records	27
Place of burial	No known grave
Commemoration details	The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 17), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign.
Panel number, Roll of Honour,   Australian War Memorial	18
Miscellaneous information from   cemetery records	Parents: James and Robina CRAIGEN, 173 Rathmines Road, Auburn, Victoria. Native of Melbourne
Other details	War service: Egypt, Western Front Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Documents	Official Record
	Red Cross Wounded and Missing