Private Edgar Herbert Crinage

Army Number: 25956

Battalion: 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived in Nottingham. Son of Peter and Mary Crinage, of 3, Asper Street, Netherfield, Nottingham. He was a garden labourer prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He was killed in action on 31st July 1917, in the attack at Wieltje, near Ypres, Belgium.

Commemorated: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.

Private Edgar Herbert Crinage is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Paul’s Church War Memorial, Carlton, Nottingham.
Carlton Cemetery, War Memorial, Carlton, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Private Joseph Walter Crinage, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), also fell in the Great War.