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Able Sea. James High
Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve Collingwood Battalion
from:Holywell, Northumberland
(d.4th June 1915 )
James High joined up in November 1914. He was a miner aged 24 and married to Mary nee Scott and had two young children
He was sent to train in the Royal Naval Volunteers Reserve as an Able Seaman in the Collingwood Battalion. He was reported missing presumed killed on 4th June 1915 and his young son died shortly after from diptheria.
He is my husband's 2nd cousin and his name is on the Memorial in St Marys Church Holywell.