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Surname: WALL
Forename(s): James Lister
Place of Birth: Keighley, Yorkshire
Service No: 79553
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Canadian Infantry
Battalion / Unit: 31st Battalion (Alberta)
Division: 2nd Canadian Division
Age: 33
Date of Death: 1916-09-21
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: IV. D. 29.
CWGC Cemetery: PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial(s): Not Listed (View Names Not Listed on a Local War Memorial)
Additional Information:
James Lister Wall (born 10 May 1883) was the son of John and Mary Wall, née Lister. Both parents were born at Keighley, Yorkshire.
1891 Keighley, Yorkshire Census: 4 James Street - James Lister Wall, aged 8 years, born Keighley, son of John and Mary Wall.
1901 Keighley, Yorkshire Census: 4, Wall Street - James Wall, aged 17 years, born Keighley, son of John and Mary Wall.
Canadian service records: http://www.baclac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/first-world-war-1914-1918-cef
Photograph: ‘The Keighlian’ the School Magazine of Keighley Boys’ Grammar School. (Courtesy of kbgs.com). Kindly supplied by the 'The Men of Worth Project' website: https://www.menofworth.org.uk
Data Source: Memorial Inscription on Family Gravestone
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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---
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Private James Lister WALL
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Canadian Infantry
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 2nd Canadian Division
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St Peter's Churchyard, Addingham
Family gravestone
St Peter's Churchyard, Addingham
Family gravestone - detail of memorial inscription
Memorial Chamber of Canada’s Parliament Buildings, Ottawa
In the Memorial Chamber are the eight ‘Books of Remembrance’ that contain the names of more than 120,000 Canadians who gave their lives in the service of Canada
Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial (Kindly supplied by Shirley Penman, Clitheroe)
![Page from the First World War ‘Book of Remembrance’: Private James [Lister] Wall](https://cpgw.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/00D-73_04.jpg)
Page from the First World War ‘Book of Remembrance’: Private James [Lister] Wall
Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial (Kindly supplied by Shirley Penman, Clitheroe)
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