2nd Lieutenant, 1/6th attached to 1/8th Lancashire Fusiliers killed in action in France 30 January 1918 aged 21. Son of William James and Mary Eliza of Homelands, Styal, Cheshire and uncle to Donald Arthur Smithies who fell in 1941. Commemorated on his parents memorial at Wilmslow Cemetery and is buried at Gorre British ans Indian Cemetery, France
