View source for James John Arthur Pte 14683049

{{Personnel
|id=2327
|Surname and forenames=James John Arthur
|Army number=14683049
|Rank=Pte
|Date of birth=Born Birmingham 1925/26.
|Age=18
|Unit=General Service Corps - enlistment date not yet known. Transferred to The Durham Light Infantry. Posted to the 10th Bn DLI.  Served Normandy.  KILLED in ACTION 19/8/1944 with 10th Battalion Durham Light Infantry.
|Joined Brigade=Date not yet known but probably Spring 1944.
|Died/Killed in action=19-Aug-44.
|Home address=Resident of Birmingham.  Son of Arthur and Hilda James, Yardley, Birmingham.  Buried St Loup-de-Fribois Churchyard.  CWGC records have no mention of an initial interment.  Private James's grave is the only WW2 burial in this particular churchyard.
|Image Name=J_A_James.JPG
|Image Title=CWGC Headstone - Private John Arthur James - 10th DLI.
|Source table=10DLI
}}


We are grateful to Paul Errington for supplying this image of Private James's headstone taken during  a visit to Normandy in 2019.