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Lieutenant Colonel JOHN WILMORE HUME JAMES

Service Number: 53163
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

Cdg. 99 (The Royal Bucks Yeomanry) Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 04 May 1944

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KOHIMA WAR CEMETERY

3. A. 1.

India

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Twice Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of Lt.-Col. Edmund Henry Salt James, C.I.E., C.B.E. and Muriel Hume James; husband of Joanna May James, of Wimborne, Dorsetshire. B.A. (Cantab.).
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY OF A GREAT-HEARTED TRUE AND KINDLY ENGLISH GENTLEMAN
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