CUTMORE, James Walter


No.320574, Private, James Walter CUTMORE
Aged 22


15th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
formerly 19904, Suffolk Regiment.
Died of his Wounds on Monday, 7th October 1918


Born in 1897 (qtr 4 Bury St.Edmunds 4a:824) son of James Walter and Mary CUTMORE (née RISBY)

1901 census...Aged 4, he was at 2 Maynewater Lane, Bury St.Edmunds with his father James Walter CUTMORE [31] brewery labourer; his mother Mary [31] born Rushbrooke; sisters Ethel Mary [8] and Edith Maud [6] All except his mother were born in Bury St.Edmunds.

1911 census...Aged 14, a bottle washer, he was still at 2 Maynewater Lane with his parents and sister Edith Maud. His mother had born 4 children but lost 2 (recorded as 3 still living ?)


He enlisted in Bury St.Edmunds. Dying of Wounds in a hospital and no service record available, it is normally impossible to say where and when exactly he was wounded, but the newspaper cutting says 2nd September and the 15th Suffolks that day according to the Brigade war dairy were fighting just west of Moislains






photo - CWGC
James Cutmore is buried in St Sever Cemtery Extension, Rouen S:2:I:15

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