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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Cantlay James Alexander
|Army number=138526
|Rank=2/Lt
|Date of birth=1918
|Age=24
|Unit=Durham Light Infantry - Emergency Commission as 2/Lt 4/7/1940, Posted No 4 I.T.C. 6/7/1940, Posted 11th Bn DLI 9/7/1940, Iceland, Posted No 4 I.T.C. 1/12/1941, Sick leave, Posted 10th Bn DLI 4/5/1942 - left Battalion June 1942 for the Middle East, Posted 8th Bn DLI, KILLED in ACTION with 8th Bn DLI.
|Company/Battery=D, A, E,
|Task or role=Platoon. Commander.
|Joined Brigade=09-Jul-40
|Promotions=W/S Lt 4/1/1942
|Died/Killed in action=02-Nov-42
|Home address=Son of Alexander White Cantlay and Muriel Cantlay of "Dunsinane", Pundaluoya, Ceylon; husband of Barbara Mary Cantlay (nee Brown - married 6/7/1940 at St Mary's, Stoke Bishop), of Stoke Bishop, Bristol.  Commemorated Column 67 Alamein Memorial.
|Source table=10DLI
}}