Name
James Martin
18 August 1883
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/08/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
42892
Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VAUXBUIN FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY
I. B. 16.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Little Berkhamsted memorials
Pre War
James Martin was born in Little Berkhamsted, Herts on 18 August 1883, the son of John and Lucinda Martin and one of nine children. He was baptised at Little Berkhamsted on 25 November 1883.
On the 1891 Census the family were living at Epping Green, Little Berkhamsted where his father was working as an agricultural labourer. His mother died in 1899, aged 50, and on the 1901 Census he was living with his widowed father and siblings Laura, Willie and Walter at Epping Green and working as a labourer, with his older sister Laura acting as housekeeper for family.
His father remarried to Eliza Bourne and in 1911 they were living at Box Wood Cottage, Hertford Heath, Herts. His father's address given on pension records is Keepers Cottage, Chequers Lane, Northam, Middlesex.
Wartime Service
James enlisted in Hertford and initially joined the Highland Light Infantry under reg. no. 29445, later transferring to the 10th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).
He died of wounds on 1 August 1918 and was originally buried in Dommiers British Cemetery, Soissons, however, James and nine other soldiers from the battalion were exhumed and reburied at the end of the war in Vauxbuin French National Cemetery, France. (N.B. Many other soldiers were reburied in this Cemetery coming from eleven different locations.)
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £13 10s and pay owing of £18 0s 6d. He also received a pension of 5 shillings a week.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
