Name
James Gatehouse Brickell
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/05/1917
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
26503
King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
9th Bn. C Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
KARASOULI MILITARY CEMETERY
E. 1182
Greece
UK & Other Memorials
Croxley Green Village Memorial, Croxley Green
All Saints' Church Shrine, Croxley Green
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial
Pre War
James was the son of Elijah and Anna Brickell of Shaftesbury, Dorset. He was christened on 31 December 1882, at Enmore Green, Dorset. By 1901 he was working as a plasterer and living with relatives at 1 Barmouth Cottages, Park Road, Rickmansworth.
James married Bessie Bailey at Canford Magna, Dorset in 1904 and by 1911 they were living at Stransleigh, Uxbridge Road, Rickmansworth, with their four-year-old daughter Evelyn. However, Bessie died later that year.
James remarried Annie M Sears in 1915. After his death she lived at 239 New Road, Croxley Green, with Alfred and Mary Darvill. James was brother of Isabella Franklin whose husband William was killed in action.
Recorded as enlisting in Watford in 1915.
Wartime Service
Private James Gatehouse Brickell is buried at Karasouli north of Salonika, Greece. Private Brickell served in the 9th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment (65th Brigade, 22nd Division).
The Battalion had been in action at Doiran on 24th-25th April 1917 and again between 8th and 9th May 1917. He may have been wounded then and later died of wounds or injured in daily attrition. He was buried in Pearce Ravine Cemetery on 22nd May and his remains were reburied in Karasouli Military Cemetery, near Polikastro, Greece.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Brian Thomson Croxley Green in the First World War, Rickmansworth Historical Society 2014
