Before compulsory conscription came in, 30yr old James joined the Royal Garrison Artillery on 4th Dec 1915. James was killed in France when the armistice was just over a month away in 'the final push' the second battle of the Somme - James is recorded as dying of his wounds in a field ambulance. He was survived by his wife Eliza, four sons and a daughter. 

Annalise Cowlishaw