Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-01-23 | Page 1 | Artist Dies in Trenches

ARTIST DIES in mm Wins Promotion for Gallant Conduct in British Army Meets Death at Front. (Correspondent of the Associated-Press). Associated-Press). London, Jan 16. Francis Edward fttsjohn Crisp, :J3 years old, a promising prom-ising young painter and illustrator, who went to the front with the artists' art-ists' battalion as a corporal and won a commission in the first grenadier guards through gallant conduct, met death last week in the trenches. In 1907 Lieutenant Crisp won the gold medal and traveling studentship of $1000 at the Royal academy for a historical painting. nn