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• Name JAMES
• Initials SH
• First name SYDNEY HERBERT
• Place of birth Paddington
• Country Middlesex, England
• Last residence Willesden, Middlesex
• Family Son of Elizabeth Sophia James, of 21, Bolton Gardens, Kensal Rise, Willesden, London.
• Extra info Bert Ridley, buried Vlamertinghe New (plot 19 H 4) was killed at the same time; the only two known 24th-searchlighters in CWGC-database

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment London
• Service number 563044
• Rank Sapper
• Regiment and unit 24th Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Section Royal Engineers
• Other data related to military career he was a searchlighter

Death

• Wounded Enemy bombing raid on a rest camp near Poperinghe
• Date of death 3 January 1918
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVI - D - 20A

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