BORN BEVERLEY 1895. ELDEST SON OF PATRICK AND RUTH McBRIDE, 31 ANDREWS STREET & 1 CHANTRY’S LANE, BEVERLEY. HIS FATHER WAS FROM LONDONDERRY, WHO HAD SERVED WITH THE WARWICK REGIMENT IN 1901 AND WORKED IN BEVERLEY AS A TANNER’S LABOURER. HIS AUNTIE MRS MARGARET JANE TAYLOR LIVED ABOVE. JAMES McBRIDE WORKED AS A CLERK AND BOARDED IN HULL AT 12 WRIGHT STREET, HULL – (1911 CENSUS).
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED IN “D” COMPANY, THE 10TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT (1ST HULL PALS BATTALION). KILLED AT OPPY WOOD, ON 3RD MAY 1917, AGED 22. IT WAS REPORTED THAT HE WENT OUT TO RECOVER HIS WOUNDED CAPTAIN AND WAS NEVER SEEN AGAIN.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 19TH APRIL 1918. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE ARRAS MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING,
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON ST CHARLES’ BORROMEO CHURCH MEMORIAL, JARRATT STREET, HULL.
HE LEFT £127 IN HIS WILL TO HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, REGINALD WILLIAM McBRIDE, DRAGOON GUARDS, OF 65 WOODS LANE, COTTINGHAM. THIS WAS JAMES’ PROBATE ADDRESS.
NB: PTE, PATRICK MCBRIDE, EYR -102 LINNAEUS STREET
