James Emil Burleigh

James Emil Burleigh Killed in action on 12 October 1917, aged 21 Second Lieutenant, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 12th Battalion Remembered at Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium CWGC: "Son of Bennet Burleigh (War Correspondent) and Bertha Bennet Burleigh, of 19, Glyn Mansions, West Kensington, London." Winner of the Military Cross Edinburgh Gazette 10 January 1918: For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during a raid on the enemy's lines. He led his party with great determination, bombed a strong point which was holding him up, and caused considerable casualties, and when the signal to withdraw was given, carried back a badly wounded man himself and afterwards returned twice in search of others. It was entirely owing to his personal reconnaissance on the previous night that the enemy were located so that the raid could be planned.

Brother of Robert Burleigh and Bennet Burleigh

Information from the 1911 census

James Burleigh, who was a 14-year-old schoolboy in 1911, lived in a 13-room house at 4 Victoria Road Clapham with his parents, Bennet Burleigh, 70, a journalist and author born in Lanark, Glasgow, and Bertha L Burleigh, 39, who was born in Warsaw. The others in the household were:

Bertha G Burleigh, 19, born in London

Robert Burleigh, 17, a student, born in London (named on the Clapham Memorial)

Bennet Burleigh, 16, born in London, at school (he is named on the Clapham Memorial)

Bertie Burleigh, 13, born in Littlehampton, at school

Ada E Green, 20, a cook, born in Chesham in Buckinghamshire.