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James Oscar Sutcliffe was born in Scafati, Italy, in 1888. On August 13, 1913, he arrived in America on the RMS Oceanic, with a final destination of Schenectady.

On June 1, 1916, James enlisted in the United States Army. He was a Sergeant with the Headquarters Company, 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division. On November 16, 1918, James died in France from spinal meningitis. He is buried in the Somme American Cemetery and Memorial, France. When James died, he had a nine-month-old son named James Henry.

Sources: Find A Grave, Ancestry


 

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

 

For the Fallen

Laurence Binyon