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James Clifford Lee

On Ancestry site Military records
James Clifford Lee, 2/Lieutenant, Princess Charlotte of Wales (Royal Berkshire Regiment),
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died of wounds, 1 August 1917, aged 19. He was buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery,
Poperinge, Belgium. Parents were Howard Westerman Lee and Henrietta Maud Mary Lee, of
Spring Vale, Foxlydiate

2/Lieutenant James Clifford Lee – source: www.findagrave.com

Remembered on St Philip’s war memorial, Webheath, Redditch and St Bartholomew’s Church war memorial,
Tardebigge.

(On the 1911 census James, aged 13, born in Redditch, was a pupil at St Oswalds College Lower Middle School
Ellesmere, Salop. On the 1901 census James lived with his parents Howard and Maud Lee and sister at Spring
Vale House, Webheath. His father Howard was a Needle Manufacturer.)

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 18 August
1917

Second Lieutenant James Clifford Lee, Royal Berkshire Regiment, who died of wounds
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received on August 1 , aged 19, was the youngest son of Mr and Mrs H. W. Lee, of
Springvale, near Redditch. He was educated at Ellemere college, Shropshire, and came home
from Bermuda on the outbreak of war, and passed through Sandhurst, where he was under-
officer of F. company. Receiving his commission in the Berkshire Regiment in 1916, he went
to France early in this year. He was appointed regimental signal officer and was attached to
an infantry brigade. He was seriously wounded by a shell outside brigade headquarters on
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July 31 ., and died in hospital the following day. His commanding officer writes: “I have
been closely associated with him for nearly two months, and knew him to be fearless and
ever strongly devoted to duty. He was a most promising officer and extremely popular with
his brother-officers, and also with his men.”
Acknowledgements: www.bromsgrovebmsgh.co.uk - Martin Stephens who digitised the Bromsgrove, Droitwich
and Redditch Messenger

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