1918-2008: Ninety Years of Remembrance

Soldier Record

James Moorby

Contributed by: Peter Hartley, on 2008-11-06

James Lambert Moorby
Rank
First Name James
Surname Moorby
Year of Birth 1893
Year of Death 1916
Regiment West Yorkshire Regiment
Place of Wartime Residence Leeds, West Yorkshire

James's Story

A Grandfather I never knew gave his life with his two brothers WW1

Taking my mother to Thiepval in 1966, where her father is listed along with the rest of the missing of the Somme battles. She never had the chance to know her father or uncles.

Other memories

Steve Moorby, Derbyshire 2008-11-16

I know of my two uncles in the 1st world war their names were James Moorby and Stephen Moorby and they were from Cark and Carmel near Grange over Sands but as far as a I know they were killed in Galipolli.

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