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{{Personnel
|id=2125
|Surname and forenames=Both James
|Army number=1110469
|Rank=Pte
|Age=0
|Unit=RA, 10 DLI
|Died/Killed in action=1/10/1944 00:00:00
|Home address=Son of Carl and Esther Both, Husband of Elsie May Both, Gravesend.
|Source table=10DLI
}}

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 |Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Artillery on 16/1/1941.  Carried out Basic Training - probably at a Primary Training Centre.  Posted to the 16th Field Training Regiment 3/4/1941.  Posted to the 55th Field Regiment - date not yet known.  Transferred to the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment 28/10/1943. Served Normandy. Transferred to The Durham Light Infantry 20/7/1944 as part of a group transfer, and posted to the 10th Battalion DLI.   Wounded 27/7/1944.  DIED OF WOUNDS 1/10/1944 in hospital in the UK while serving with 10th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry.
 |Died/Killed in action= DIED of WOUNDS 01-Oct-44 at Letchford Emergency Hospital, Burntwood.
-|Home address=Resident of Gravesend, Kent.  Youngest son of Carl Christian and Esther Both (nee Ramsey). Husband of Elsie May Both, Gravesend.  Buried Plot B. 4. Grave 1942, Gravesend Cemetery.
+|Home address=Resident of Gravesend, Kent.  Youngest son of Carl Christian and Esther Both (nee Ramsey). Educated at Milton Road School.  Worked for Charrington Brewery in Mile End Road.  Husband of Elsie May Both (nee Austin), Gravesend.  Married in 1931.  Had three children.  Buried Plot B. 4. Grave 1942, Gravesend Cemetery.
 |Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
 |Age=At the time of his death - 35 years old.
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 |Source table=10DLI
 }}
 Private Both's Obituary Noticce from his local newspaper is set out below:-
 [[File:Both,_James_KM_13.10.1944_p.4.jpg|400px|thumb|centre|Newspaper report]]

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		+	Private Both's Obituary Noticce from his local newspaper is set out below:-
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		+	[[File:Both,_James_KM_13.10.1944_p.4.jpg\|400px\|thumb\|centre\|Newspaper report]]

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 |Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Artillery on 16/1/1941.  Carried out Basic Training - probably at a Primary Training Centre.  Posted to the 16th Field Training Regiment 3/4/1941.  Posted to the 55th Field Regiment - date not yet known.  Transferred to the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment 28/10/1943. Served Normandy. Transferred to The Durham Light Infantry 20/7/1944 as part of a group transfer, and posted to the 10th Battalion DLI.   Wounded 27/7/1944.  DIED OF WOUNDS 1/10/1944 in hospital in the UK while serving with 10th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry.
 |Died/Killed in action= DIED of WOUNDS 01-Oct-44 at Letchford Emergency Hospital, Burntwood.
-|Home address=Resident of Kent.  Youngest son of Carl Christian and Esther Both (nee Ramsey). Husband of Elsie May Both, Gravesend.  Buried Plot B. 4. Grave 1942, Gravesend Cemetery.
+|Home address=Resident of Gravesend, Kent.  Youngest son of Carl Christian and Esther Both (nee Ramsey). Husband of Elsie May Both, Gravesend.  Buried Plot B. 4. Grave 1942, Gravesend Cemetery.
 |Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
-|Age=(At time of death).35 years old.
+|Age=At the time of his death - 35 years old.
 |Company/Battery=Not yet known.
 |Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
-|Task or role=Not yet known.
+|Task or role=Not yet known but probably rifleman.
-|Joined Brigade=Not yet confirmed.
+|Joined Brigade=20/7/1944.
 |Promotions=None known.
-|Wounded=Yes - understood to have been wounded on 27th July 1944.  There is reference to several casualties having occurred to members of a fighting patrol that day, as a result of enemy bombing or shelling.  It seems likely that Private Both was one of those men.
+|Wounded=Yes - understood to have been wounded on 26th or 27th July 1944.
 |Prisoner of War=No
 |Source table=10DLI
 }}

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 |Rank=Private.
 |Date of birth=Born Kent.  Date not yet confirmed but probably 1909 - exact date not yet known.  National Registration Number AVGG 161/1.
-|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Artillery in 1940.  Transferred to the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment 28/10/1943.  Transferred to The Durham Light Infantry (exact date not known), Posted to the 10th Battalion DLI. Served Normandy.  Wounded 27/7/1944.  DIED OF WOUNDS 1/10/1944 in hospital in the UK while serving with 10th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry.
+|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Artillery on 16/1/1941.  Carried out Basic Training - probably at a Primary Training Centre.  Posted to the 16th Field Training Regiment 3/4/1941.  Posted to the 55th Field Regiment - date not yet known.  Transferred to the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment 28/10/1943. Served Normandy. Transferred to The Durham Light Infantry 20/7/1944 as part of a group transfer, and posted to the 10th Battalion DLI.   Wounded 27/7/1944.  DIED OF WOUNDS 1/10/1944 in hospital in the UK while serving with 10th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry.
 |Died/Killed in action= DIED of WOUNDS 01-Oct-44 at Letchford Emergency Hospital, Burntwood.
 |Home address=Resident of Kent.  Youngest son of Carl Christian and Esther Both (nee Ramsey). Husband of Elsie May Both, Gravesend.  Buried Plot B. 4. Grave 1942, Gravesend Cemetery.

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 |Joined Brigade=Not yet confirmed.
 |Promotions=None known.
-|Wounded=Yes - understood to have been wounded on 27th July 1944.
+|Wounded=Yes - understood to have been wounded on 27th July 1944.  There is reference to several casualties having occurred to members of a fighting patrol that day, as a result of enemy bombing or shelling.  It seems likely that Private Both was one of those men.
 |Prisoner of War=No
 |Source table=10DLI
 }}

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 |Surname and forenames=Both James
 |Army number=1110469
-|Rank=Pte
+|Rank=Private.
-|Age=0
+|Date of birth=Born Kent.  Date not yet confirmed but probably 1909 - exact date not yet known.  National Registration Number AVGG 161/1.
-|Date of birth=Born Kent - exact date not yet known.  National Registration Number AVGG 161/1.
+|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Artillery in 1940.  Transferred to the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment 28/10/1943.  Transferred to The Durham Light Infantry (exact date not known), Posted to the 10th Battalion DLI. Served Normandy.  Wounded 27/7/1944.  DIED OF WOUNDS 1/10/1944 in hospital in the UK while serving with 10th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry.
-|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Artillery - probably 1940.  Transferred to the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment 28/10/1943.  Trf Durham Light Infantry (date not known), Posted 10th Bn DLI. Served Normandy?  DIED 1/10/1944 while with 10th Bn Durham Light Infantry.
+|Died/Killed in action= DIED of WOUNDS 01-Oct-44 at Letchford Emergency Hospital, Burntwood.
-|Died/Killed in action=Died 01-Oct-44.
+|Home address=Resident of Kent.  Youngest son of Carl Christian and Esther Both (nee Ramsey). Husband of Elsie May Both, Gravesend.  Buried Plot B. 4. Grave 1942, Gravesend Cemetery.
-|Home address=Resident of Kent.  Son of Carl and Esther Both. Husband of Elsie May Both, Gravesend.  Buried Plot B. 4. Grave 1942, Gravesend Cemetery.
+|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
 |Source table=10DLI
 }}

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 |Rank=Pte
 |Age=0
-|Unit=Royal Artillery, Trf Durham Light Infantry (date not known), Posted 10th Bn DLI, DIED 1/10/1944 while with 10th Bn Durham Light Infantry.
+|Date of birth=Not yet known.  National Registration Number AVGG 161/1.
-|Died/Killed in action=01-Oct-44
+|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Artillery - probably 1940.  Transferred to the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment 28/10/1943.  Trf Durham Light Infantry (date not known), Posted 10th Bn DLI, DIED 1/10/1944 while with 10th Bn Durham Light Infantry.
-|Home address=Son of Carl and Esther Both, Husband of Elsie May Both, Gravesend.  Buried Plot B. 4. Grave 1942, Gravesend Cemetery.
+|Died/Killed in action=Died 01-Oct-44
 |Source table=10DLI
 }}