Photo: James Pasby

James Craig was the son of John and Rebecca Craig, husband of Amy Craig, of New Penshaw, Co. Durham.

On the 27th July 1942 the [Search], lights of the 37th (Tyne Electrical Engineers) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers Regiment were engaged during a raid. (part of the 'Baedeker Blitz.

The raids were referred to on both sides as "Baedeker raids", derived from a comment by a German propagandist. Baron Gustav Braun von Stumm, a spokesman for the German Foreign Office, is reported to have said on the 24th April 1942, "We shall go out and bomb every building in Britain marked with three stars in the Baedeker Guide", a reference to the popular travel guides of that name. Goebbels was furious; keen to brand British attacks as "terror bombing", he was equally keen to designate German efforts as "retaliatory measures". Stumm's off-the-cuff remark "effectively admitted the Germans were targeting cultural and historic targets, just what the German leadership did not want to do, and Goebbels took steps to make sure it did not happen again".

The CWGC entry for Gunner Craig