Name
James Murray Scott Christie
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/07/1916
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
12856
Bedfordshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY
I. F. 35.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Great Amwell Village Memorial, St John the Baptist Church Memorial, Great Amwell, We are not aware of any Amwell Marsh memorial, Not on the Rye Park memorial
Pre War
Born on 20 Apr 1894 in Rye Park, Herts. son of James Reid and Jessie (Brown) Christie and baptised in Hoddesdon on 1 Jul 1894. He was living in Great Amwell in 1901 and later in New River Well, Amwell Marsh, Ware, Herts. Where he was living when he enlisted in Hertford.
Wartime Service
In Jul 1916 the battalion was in the front line trenches of the Somme east of Albert close to Contalmaison. There were two large casualty clearing stations at Puchevillers where he presumably died of wounds.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
