Ramsay James L /Cpl 4455321
Personnel Entry
Name Ramsay James
Army number 4455321
Rank Lance Corporal.
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards.
Date of birth Not yet known.
Age (At the time of his death) Not yet known.
Unit Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, no enlistment date, but his number suggests 1st or 2nd May 1939. Posted to the ? 9th Battalion. Posted to the ? 12th Battalion. Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940, and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish. Served with the B.E.F. in Northern France. Taken Prisoner of War - date not recorded but probably 20/5/1940. Repatriated to the UK. Posted ? Bn Black Watch. Discharged under King's Regulations 1940 Para 390 (xviii)G 27/1/46.
Company/Battery A Company, C Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not known.
Task or role Probably Rifleman.
Joined Brigade 1/9/1939.
Promotions Lance Corporal.
Wounded Not yet known.
Prisoner of War Yes - Stalag VIIIB and 357, PoW Number 28.
Died/Killed in action Date of death not known.
Home address 151, Clavering Avenue, Dunston-on-Tyne.
Source table 1TS
