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Name:

Walter JAMES

Casualty No.:

Ranks:

Captain

Initials:

Service No.:

Date of Birth :

01/01/1984

Place of Birth :

Age at Death:

Unit:

10th Bn Durham Light Infantry.

Former Unit(s):

Place Enlisted:

Place of Residence:

Westminster, London.

Home Address:

59 Warwick Square, Westminster, London.

Previous Address:

Elvaston Hall, Ryton on Tyne, Co. Durham

Civilian Employment:

How Died:

Killed in action (shellfire)

Date of Death:

Friday 25th June 1915

Place of Death:

Menin Road Trenches opposite Hooge, Belgium.

Battle/Campaign:

Locally Commemorated:

UK Commemorated:

Overseas Commemorated:

Buried:

Bedford House Cemetery, Belgium.

Decoration and Medals:

Photographs:

Service Records:

Death Notice/Obituary:

Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 5th July 1915.

Family Details:

Youngest son of the late Walter James and Lady Campbell of Kilbryde, of Elvaston Hall, Ryton on Tyne, Co. Durham. Husband of Isolde Mary James, the eldest daughter of the Reverand G and Mrs Henniker Gotley.

Notes :

Educated at Charterhouse. Received his commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Durham Light Infantry in September 1903. He retired from the Army following a bad polo accident in India and settled in Rhodesia. Returned to the UK in 1914 and appointed temporary Lieutenant in the Durham Light Infantry on 28th November 1914. Promoted to temporary Captain on 2nd January 1915.

Sources Used:

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt of Honour Register. Officers Died in the Great War. Bond of Sacrifice, Volume 2 – Colonel L A Clutterbuck.

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