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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Cantlay James Alexander
|Army number=138526
|Rank=2/Lt
|Date of birth=1918 in Ceylon (some records indicate he was born in Egypt).
|Age=24
|Unit=Enlisted in the Gordon Highlanders and served in the ranks.  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. Served Iceland. Posted No 4 I.T.C. 1/12/1941. Sick leave. Posted 10th Bn DLI 4/5/1942 - left Battalion June 1942 for service in the Middle East. Posted 8th Bn DLI. KILLED in ACTION with 8th Bn Durham Light Infantry.
|Company/Battery=D Company. A Company. E Company.
|Task or role=Platoon Commander.
|Joined Brigade=09-Jul-40
|Promotions=W/S Lt 4/1/1942.
|Died/Killed in action=02-Nov-42 in Egypt.
|Home address=Resident of Bristol.  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
}}