Fusilier James McCrory (6978959) served in 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers during the Second World War. He was the son of John McCrory and Cathleen McCrory of Gortin, Co. Tyrone.
He died on 19th May 1940 aged 21 years old. At the time, 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers were part of the rear-guard during the British Expeditionary Force retreat to Dunkirk. That day, the Luftwaffe carried out bombing and strafing of the Fusiliers’ position along a 5,000-yard front north-east of Ninove near the River Dendre.
James McCrory’s grave is in Grave 265 of Outer Communal Cemetery, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. His name is on the Lisburn War Memorial, Lisburn, Co. Antrim. His headstone in Belgium bears the inscription:
We dwell on the memory of days that have been. Ever remembered by father and family.