James, John Charles Andow 1071 (1891 - 1915)

Corporal, Honourable Artillery Company

Buried at New Irish Farm Cemetery

Commemorated at Hillhead High School

The only son of Mr and Mrs John F. James, Kingscot, High Wycombe, Bucks, John Charles A. James received his education at Hillhead High School.

On leaving School he was apprenticed as a marine engineer, and later as an electrical engineer.

When war was declared he was under contract to proceed to Calcutta as assistant superintendent engineer to a large shipping firm there, but the urgent call of King and country with him had first place, and by the 9th August, 1914, he had enlisted in the Hon. Artillery Company.

He sailed for France on the 18th September, and continued there without a break till the 22nd September, 1915, when he came home
on short leave.

Returning to the front on the 26th September, Private James fell in action at Hooge on the 30th of the same month, aged twenty-five. He was highly popular with his comrades, and his commanding officer, writing to the bereaved parents, said, " If when my time comes I shall have served my King and country as well as your son has done I shall have done well."

Many old boys remember Private James as a singularly winning personality, and deeply mourn his loss.