Name: CRACKETT, PETER
Initials: P
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: King's Own Scottish Borderers
Unit Text: 4th Bn.
Age: 28
Date of Death: 06/02/1945
Service No: 14329093
Additional information: Son of William and Jane Crackett; husband of Catherine Easton Crackett, of Bedlington, Northumberland.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: VI. 313.
Cemetery: BRUNSSUM WAR CEMETERY
Adopted by: Bas Bruls

“According to our records, Private Peter Crackett was one of 18 casualties recovered from Schimmert and reburied in Brunssum war Cemetery in July 1946.  There were 2 plots at Schimmert.  The first plot containing 12 casualties was located to the North-East of Schimmert, in the vicinity of the junction of Leeuwenkuilsweg and Mareweg.  The other plot of 6 casualties was to the North-West along the Langstraat.  We do not have photographs of either of these plots.

Source - Commonwealth War Graves Commission