Saturday 18 July 2015

Banks, James Arthur - Private (30416)

Pte James Arthur Banks
1st Battalion,
King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment),
Killed in Action,
12th October 1917,
Age 19,
Commemorated Tyne Cot Memorial






Newspaper Report.
James Arthur Banks was before enlisting Lance Corporal of the Church Lads Brigade, a bell-ringer and Secretary of Musbury Branch of the C.E.T.S. He was killed instantaneously by a shell on October 12th just before an attack took place.




Pte James Arthur Banks Census information - Click over census to enlarge