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Private R JAMES

Service Number: 85856
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

195th Coy.

Date of Death

Died 11 August 1917

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BUTTES NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, POLYGON WOOD

XXIX. D. 9.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George and Mary James, of Stockton-on-Tees; husband of Mary Lizzie James, of 24, Leeds St., Stockton-on-Tees.
  • Personal Inscription DEEPLY MOURNED BY HIS WIFE MARY & SON HAROLD
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Buried or commemorated at

BUTTES NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, POLYGON WOOD
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 2112
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