BORN BEVERLEY 1893. SON OF ALBERT EDWARD FOX & MARIA STEPHENSON, OF BEVERLEY. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. HUSBAND OF IDA FOX (1892-), AT 3 CHANTRY LANE BEVERLEY. THEY HAD ONE DAUGHTER, DOROTHY MARY FOX, BORN ON 24/11/1911.
WORKED AS A FARM LABOURER WITH HIS FATHER.
HE ENLISTED IN BEVERLEY. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 18/04/1915. SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL IN THE 1/5TH YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 26/12/1917, AGED 24.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 31/01/1918. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE BEVERLEY’S WW1 MEMORIAL, MEMORIAL GARDENS.
HIS BROTHER, ABLE SEAMAN, ROBERT STANLEY FOX, WAS LOST ON THE HMS “QUEEN MARY”, 31/05/1916, AGED 19.
HIS WIDOW REMARRIED AND BECAME IDA COX.
First name:
JAMES ALBERT
Military Number:
240748
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
26/12/1917
Place died:
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
24
15 PRIORY ROAD, BEVERLEY, EAST RIDING, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Place Buried
