Regimental Number: 437615
Rank: Private
Branch: 49th Battalion
James was born in London, Ontario on February 2, 1880. He enlisted in Edmonton in August of 1915. James received shrapnel wounds to his right leg, ears, and shoulder in September of 1917. In 1919, after being discharged from the army, James came to the Peace country and filed on a homestead at NW 4-76-21-W5. He never married, and died in Guy in 1929 (1927, according to his homestead record).
Source: By the Peavine in the Smoky of the Peace p. 331