Name
Francis John James
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/03/1917
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
25561
Northamptonshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 11 A and 11 D.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Royston Town War Memorial, Not on the Aspenden Village Memorial
Pre War
Born in Aspenden, enlisted in Hitchin.
A married man with five children, his family lived at The Warren, Royston. Before the war he was employed by Mr W Bedwell, as a plumber and decorator for over 20 years.
Wartime Service
He joined the army in June 1916 and was posted to France in October of that year.
Killed in action.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Paul Johnson
