Birth: 4 November 1916 Hackney, London, UK
Father: Charles Lewington Robert James 1890-1955
Mother: Clara Bryan 1893-a1944
Marriage: January-March 1940 Hendon, Middlesex, UK
Wife: Irene Maud Cowles [Clark] 1917-2007
Death: 31 May 1944 Cassino, Frosinone, Italy
Buried: III. C. 4 :Cassino War Cemetry, Via S. Angelo 03043, Cassino, Frosinone, Italy
Andrew P James 1943
Birth of Charles S James, mother's maiden name Bryan, in FreeBMD in October-December 1916 in Hackney (1b 722).
In the Army Pension Records of Charles Lewington Robert James it states Charles Sidney James was a son born on 4 November 1916 in Central Hackney, mother Clara Bryan, and brother Lewington Reginald James
There are two entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Charles Sidney James address 230 Streatfield Road, Kenton, Stanmore, Harrow, Hendon in 1938 and 1939, other occupants Charles Lewington R and Clara James (parents?) and Lewington Reginald James (brother?).
Marriage of Charles S James and Irene M Cowles in FreeBMD in January-March 1940 in Hendon (3a 1731).
His son was born in Watford in 1943.
Entry in Ancestry UK, Army Roll of Honour, 1939-1945 for Charles S James born in E London, Corporal 13020747 in the Royal Armoured Corps died 31 May 1944 in Italy.
Entry in Commonwealth War Graves Commision for James, Charles Sidney, Corporal 13020747 in the Royal Armoured Corps 142nd (7th Bn. The Suffolk Regt.), son of Charles Lewington Robert and Clara James; husband of Irene M. James, of Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, died 31 May 1944, buried III. C. 4 :Cassino War Cemetry, Via S. Angelo 03043 Cassino (FR) Lazio (139 kilometres south-east of Rome). "Operations in January 1944 landed troops behind the German lines at Anzio, but defences were well organised, and a breakthrough was not actually achieved until 18 May, when Cassino was finally taken. During these early months of 1944, Cassino saw some of the fiercest fighting of the Italian campaign, the town itself and the dominating Monastery Hill proving the most stubborn obstacles encountered in the advance towards Rome. The majority of those buried in the war cemetery died in the battles during these months."
Entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Charles Sidney James born in 1916 in Hackney, London, parents Charles Lewington Robert James and Clara Bryan, his marriage to Irene M Cowles in Hendon, Middlesex in March 1940 and his death on 31 May 1944.
Charles Sidney James was the husband of Irene Maude Cowles, my fifth cousin once removed.
James Gendex
Croucher Gendex
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