Name
James Fletcher
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/07/1917
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
202862
Essex Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BAYFORD (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary’s Church Bayford & Brickendon Memorial, Bayford, Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regiment Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Son of Mr Joseph and Ellen E. Fletcher, of Well Row, Roxford, Hertford.
Wartime Service
Formerly 2768 Hertfordshire Regiment.
He was wounded and died in Derby Royal Infirmary from a gunshot wound to the thigh. A local newspaper reported that he was buried in Bayford churchyard with full military honours.
Additional Information
He was one of three sons serving and the only one to die.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Pip White (nee Fletcher), Jonty Wild
