Name
James Peter Hargreaves
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/10/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Royal Field Artillery
126th Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 4 to 6 and 162.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Caldicott School Memorial, Hitchin*1
Pre War
He was born in April 1898 the son of Dr. J. A. Hargreaves, of Wetherby House, Wetherby, Yorks., and the late Annie Hargreaves.
He entered Caldicott School in April 1908 and leaving in July 1911. He then went to the Leys at Cambridge.
Wartime Service
James obtained a commission and was killed in action whilst serving with the 126th Royal Field Artillery. This was during the Battle of Poelcappelle in the Ypres Salient in appalling conditions of mud and devastation.
He has no known grave but is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing near Ypres in Belgium.
Additional Information
He may appear as G B on the school memorial. *1 This memorial (names only) was removed to Caldicott School, Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire, when the school moved to that site.
Acknowledgments
Terry Ransome, www.caldicott.com/HistoryWW2.aspx, Jonty Wild
