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Stewart James
Ancestry site, Military records
Private Steward James, born and resided in Webheath and enlisted in Redditch, Service No
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285162, 16 Battalion, Welsh Regiment, , killed in action, 4 August 1917, Western
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European Theatre, formerly (203944) 1 Worcestershire Regiment. Remembererd on Ypres
(Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium, Panel 37. Son of John Thomas and Eliza James.
Forces War Records, Private Steward James was the son of John Thomas and Eliza James of
3 North View, Heathfield Road, Webheath.
Ypres (Menin gate) Memorial – source:- http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-
cemetery/cemetery/91800/YPRES%20(MENIN%20GATE)%20MEMORIAL
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross, Headless Cross C. of E. School war memorial and St
Philip’s war memorial, Webheath.
(Registered at birth as Stewart James in 1896 in the Bromsgrove District. On the 1911 census he was known as
Steward James, aged 14, Manufacturers Errand Boy, was living with his parents John Thomas and Eliza James
and siblings in Webheath Lane Webheath.
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Evening Despatch – Saturday 8 September 1917
Despatch runner - James killed in action, was killed in the act of carrying a message.
Acknowledgements British Library image www.britishnewspaperarchives.co.uk
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