Private James Cochrane

Army Number : 76139 (formerly 200 Highland Field Company, Royal Engineers)

Battalion : 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Margaret Cochrane, of 5, Bell Lane, Broughty Ferry, Dundee; Husband of Agnes Scrimgeour (formerly Cochrane), of 46, Kemback Street, Dundee. He was a carpenter prior to enlisting 23rd November 1915 at Dundee. He was transferred to the Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and went to France 11th January 1917. Posted to the 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 2nd February 1916 and was killed in action, 3rd August 1917, age 26, whilst serving in the trenches near St. Julian, near Ypres, Belgium.

Commemorated : Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.

Private James Cochrane is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. James’s Church War Memorial, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, Scotland.
Trinity Church War Memorial, Dundee, Scotland.