Name
James Wickham Ley (DSO, MC)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/10/1918
42
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Major
North Staffordshire (Prince of Wales’s) Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Distinguished Service Order
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TEHRAN WAR CEMETERY
V. E. 5.
Iran
UK & Other Memorials
St Peter’s Church Memorial, Bushey Heath
Pre War
James Wickham Ley, born in Hampstead, Middlesex, on 10 July 1877, was the son of James Verchild Lay and Mary Jewell Wickham. James had a military career with the North Staffordshire Regiment. At the time of the 1911 census, he was married to Helen Strode Sinclair
Additional Information
After his death he was recorded as the son of James V. and Mary J. Ley; husband of the late Helen Strode Ley (nee Sinclair). Also see ‘Additional Information’ provided with kind permission of Bushey First World War Commemoration Project – Please visit www
Acknowledgments
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
