Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Great War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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Pte. James Haigh

British Army 2nd Battalion Leicestershire Regiment

from:Womersley, Yorkshire

(d.7th May 1916)

James Haigh was born in 1892 in Womersley, Yorkshire West Riding and first served with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (reg no 25355). How he came to serve with the Leicestershire Regiment is unknown.

He married Florence Oliver in 1910 and they had two children - Ethel born 1911 and James R born 1913. Jim was killed in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) on 7th May 1916 and is buried in Basra Cemetery.



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