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Able Sea. James Chandler Kilgour
Collingwood Battalion Royal Naval Division
from:Jarrow
(d.7th Oct 1914)
James Chandler Kilgour served with Collingwood Battalion R. N. Division Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, he died 7th October 1914 aged 25.
Born in Jarrow in 1887, he was the son of Alexander and Mary Kilgour (formerly Bell nee Chandler.) On the 1911 census James Chandler Kilgour is listed as being aged 24, a Ships Painter in Shipyard and lodging at 282 High Street, Jarrow.
James is remembered on the Nieuport Memorial and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.