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08/01/1890 - 05/03/1917

Place of birth: Hampstead, Middlesex
Last known address in Bromley: 25 Wickham Road, Beckenham

Military information

Regiment/Service: Royal Irish Regiment
Battalion/Ship: 5th Bn
Rank: Lieutenant
Number: Unknown

Family information

Parents: David Jugurtha & Laura Frances Dunlop (nee Beddard)
Parents' occupation: East India Merchant
Siblings: Walter Nigel Usher, Sibyl, David Colin, Evelyn Annie

Census information

1891
Address: 117 Alexander Road, Hampstead
1901
Address: 53 Belsize Avenue, Hampstead
1911
Address: 25 Wickham Road, Beckenham
Occupation: Clerk

Extra details

James was the eldest of David and Laura Dunlop's five children. He attended Westminster School from 1903 to 1906 before taking employment as a clerk with an Australian Merchant. In 1912 James went to Argentina to work for the British owned Buenos Aires Western Railway.

At the outbreak of war he returned home enlisting in the London Scottish on 13th September 1914, which then formed the 14th (Co. of London) Battalion of the London Regiment. He went to the Front that same month and was severely wounded in his arm on 31st October at Messines. He was invalided home and after some months in hospital obtained a commission in the Black Watch, in which he was appointed Assistant Adjutant. Subsequently he was transferred to Royal Irish Regiment in October 1915, going to Salonika in November. Once again James was invalided home in December and in January 1917 he was forced to resign his commission on account of his health.

James had been badly wounded in the arm at the Battle of Messines, and although he was later sent out to Salonika and eventually died of a cancer of the spine, he was always said to have died of wounds, since he never really recovered from this injury and its complications. When he returned to England he was cared for in Netley Hospital, a large military facility near Southampton. However, his family managed to bring him home as he reached the end of his life.