Name
James Bunyan
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/09/1916
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
24557
Grenadier Guards
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 8 D.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Sacombe Village Memorial Not on the Sarratt memorials, We are not aware of any memorial in Whempstead
Pre War
Born in 1891 in Whempstead, Hertfordshire and baptised on 18 Jan 1891 in Watton at Stone son of Walter and Elizabeth Bunyan, living in Watton at Stone in 1901 and Bennington in 1911. He was a hay tier.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Watford and was killed in action on the Somme.
Additional Information
SDITGW says that he was born in Sarratt, but his census records say that he was born in Whempstead. UK Army Registers of Soldiers’ Effects say his father was Walter, so it seems to be the same man.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
