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Identity
Person No.
40635
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
James Harold
Initials
J
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
39
Death Record
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, at Battle of Loos, while leading the right flank Coy
Military Service
Rank
Captain
Secondary Unit
INTAF
Defence Force
UK 4,066
British forces
Awards
United Kingdom
MID LG Sup 1 January 1916 pg. 30 | Husband of Kathleen Cuthbert, O.B.E. (now Lady Rayleigh, of Beaufront Castle, Hexham, Northumberland, and
Notes

Husband of Kathleen Cuthbert, O.B.E. (now Lady Rayleigh, of Beaufront Castle, Hexham, Northumberland, and Terling Place, Chelmsford). Born Melster, Pietermaritizburg, South Africa. His sons Gerald Ivo Cuthbert and Sidney John Cuthbert fell in the 1939-1945 war.

Research notes


16 Sep 2026, ServiceNo contamination sweep: the stored ServiceNo '650610' was CLEARED. It was not a reading of this man's record. PersonNumbers 40634 to 40636 -- 3 consecutive records -- all carried the identical number, which belongs to the record at the head of that run (40634, Zvokuvenda, John (J)). A value repeated down an unbroken block of PersonNumbers is a forward-fill import artefact, not men who shared a service number; the pattern holds across 850 such runs on this roll and is independently confirmed by Mike Sandham's research log, which attaches such numbers to the head of the run 167 times against 6 contradictions (all examined). No replacement is guessed: this man's real service number is simply not known, and a blank field says so honestly where another man's number did not.

Citations

MID LG Sup 1 January 1916 pg. 30

LG Sup 1 January 1916 pg. 30 p.30
LG Sup 1 January 1916 pg. 30 p.30
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