• Home
  • About
  • Getting Involved
  • Men on the Gates
  • Men at the Front
  • Men at Home
  • Women of WW1
  • News
  • Events
  • Contact
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram

News

Men on the Gates

Home Men On The Gates DUTTON, JA. Private 2621.
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T V W
Da De Do Dr Du
Duc Dud Dut

DUTTON, JA. Private 2621.

May 11, 2017Published By Joan Zorn

BORN – Failsworth, Lancashire
HOMEFRONT – Place / Occupation / Holy Trinity 

JOB – Cotton piecer / Spinner
UNIT – 1/6 Bn Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
RANK – Private 2621
THEATRE – Died at Home
DIED – 25 January 1917. Aged 26.
BURIED – Oswestry General Cemetery. (CWGC)

James Alfred Dutton was born in Failsworth, Lancashire in 1891 and lived at 320 Oldham Road and at 13 Mona Street until at least 1911. All told there were 12 children of whom 4 died young. Their father was a joiner by trade and the children, after schooling, worked in the cotton mills. James was a cotton piecer in 1911 and described as a spinner on his attestation. Their mother, Frances, was from Oswestry and returned to live at Canal View, Crickheath sometime after 1911. James however remained in Failsworth living at 4 Roman Road.

James enlisted in January 1915 in Manchester, joining the Royal Scots Territorials and reporting to Edinburgh. The battalion soon went to Egypt, arriving at Alexandria on 15 September 1915. Soon after arrival James began to show symptoms of dysentery and was admitted to the 5th Canadian General Hospital in Egypt. He spent 5 weeks there but his condition did not improve and he was sent back to England. He arrived back at the end of October 1915 and was admitted to Reading Military Hospital. He was given various treatments including an appendectomy and abdominal lavages but his condition did not improve. He became emaciated and weak and he went steadily downhill.

James died of dysentery complicated by pneumonia and exhaustion on 25 January 1917. His body was returned to Oswestry for burial. He is also commemorated on Holy Trinity Church War Memorial, Oswestry.

Acknowledgements.

References and Sources

END


QUICK LINKS

  • Home
  • About
  • Getting Involved
  • Men on the Gates
  • Men at the Front
  • Men at Home
  • Women of WW1
  • News
  • Events
  • Contact

CONTACT

01691 656 882
menonthegates@hotmail.com
info@qube-oca.org.uk

Twitter
Facebook
Instagram

VISIT US

Oswald Road
Oswestry
SY11 1RB

Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm
Sat 9:30am - 12:30pm
ADMISSION FREE

NEWSLETTER SIGNUP

  • Cookie Policy
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Web by Twenty Two Design

Qube is a registered charity in England and Wales | Charity No: 1063319 | Company Reg. No: 3390138