Master Sergeant Dyer Clark Craig of Wortham died in a North Africa hospital November 27, so his parents were informed Wednesday by a message from Major General J. A. Ulio of the War Department. He had been seriously wounded in the Italian offensive five days previously, November 22, and presumably removed by plane to one of the base hospitals in North Africa. Sergeant Craig, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Craig of Wortham, was serving in a tank destroyer outfit in the 36th Division at the the time of his death. According to W. R. Cash, member of the Wortham Selective Service board, he was one of the first to be called into service from that Freestone County town, and had been in service some three years. Before he was called by the Army, he worked in Wortham as a garage mechanic and in the local cotton gin. He was also a graduate of the Wortham High School. No other information concerning his death was available, but further details are customarily forwarded by the War Department.
--- The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, TX), Fri, 31 Dec 1943, P. 7.
Master Sergeant Dyer Clark Craig of Wortham died in a North Africa hospital November 27, so his parents were informed Wednesday by a message from Major General J. A. Ulio of the War Department. He had been seriously wounded in the Italian offensive five days previously, November 22, and presumably removed by plane to one of the base hospitals in North Africa. Sergeant Craig, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Craig of Wortham, was serving in a tank destroyer outfit in the 36th Division at the the time of his death. According to W. R. Cash, member of the Wortham Selective Service board, he was one of the first to be called into service from that Freestone County town, and had been in service some three years. Before he was called by the Army, he worked in Wortham as a garage mechanic and in the local cotton gin. He was also a graduate of the Wortham High School. No other information concerning his death was available, but further details are customarily forwarded by the War Department.
--- The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, TX), Fri, 31 Dec 1943, P. 7.
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