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Pte. James Comer
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 9th Battalion
from:Hemsworth, West Yorkshire
(d.1st July 1916)
James Cormer was born in Ryhill, Yorkshire in 1895. We have his medals and the letter from the King to his parents when he died. We had no photograph of James, but a relative from America sent us a photograph with another soldier on it who served with James being a corporal and physical instructer with the 9th Battalion same as James.
James died the first day of the Battle of The Somme but has no known grave. He is remembered on the War Memorial at Thiepval. We visited The Somme this summer and we went to Thiepval and many of the very well kept cemeteries there. We found one where some of the soldiers of his battalion are buried and placed a poppy cross on one of the graves of an unknown soldier who died on that day. It was so sad to see all the people who died serving their countries. God Bless them all
