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Military service
Service number:
784561
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force
Division:
3nd Bn.
Birth:
September 12, 1894
Death:
April 9, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. C. 18.
Additional information
Son of Augustus and Sarah James, of Waterdown, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Richard Augustus James
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Attestation Papers
Attestation Paper - Battalion No. 784561 Richard Augustus James, Born September 12, 1894 Trade or Calling: Blacksmith Signed the 27th day of January 1916 Waterdown, Ontario -
Grave Marker
784561 Private R. A. James, 3rd BN. CANADIAN INF. 9th April 1917 AGE 23 The Trial is hard. I will not complain. But trust in God to meet again. -
Bois Carre British Cemetery
Bois Carre British Cemetery 1917 - 1919 -
Waterdown Memorial Hall
View of the Waterdown Memorial Hall (1922) and the War Memorial Plaques. The street address is 317 Dundas Street, Waterdown, ON. -
Commemorative Plaque
Details of names on the Waterdown Ontario WWI Memorial Plaque. The central column represents the war dead and the other names are from the Roll of Service. -
Photo of Richard James
picture includes a photo of Richard and his death penny -
Grave Marker
The grave marker at the Bois Carre British Cemetery located on Vimy Ridge at the eastern edge of the town of Thelus, France. The cemetery is about 6 kilometres from Canada's Vimy Memorial. May he rest in peace. (John & Anne Stephens 2013) -
Cemetery
The Bois Carre British Cemetery located on Vimy Ridge at the eastern edge of the town of Thelus, France. The cemetery is about 6 kilometres from Canada's Vimy Memorial.(John & Anne Stephens 2013)
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Private Richard Augustus James
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Augustus James
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Augustus James
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Augustus James
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Augustus James
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Augustus James
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Augustus James
Digital gallery of
Private Richard Augustus James
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 262 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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BOIS-CARRE BRITISH CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Thelus is a village 7 kilometres north of Arras and BOIS-CARRE BRITISH CEMETERY is about half a mile east of the village on the south side of the D49 road to Bailleul-sire-Berthoult.
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