Private James Duxbury

Army Number: 24596

Battalion : 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Little Lever, Bolton, Son of James and Betsy Duxbury, of 13, Top, 6th Lodge, Little Lever, Bolton. He enlisted at Bolton and was killed in action on 3rd June 1917, age 22. When a German shell fell directly on a tunnel entrance at Philosophe, Belgium. His body was recovered on 5th June 1917.

Died :

Buried: Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, France. Plot 1. Row R. Grave 6.

Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, France.
Private J. Duxbury grave

He is also commemorated on the Little Lever Library War Memorial, Little Lever, Bolton.