Robert James
Kings Own Scottish Borderers
Derek Johnstone has provided the following:
Robert James was born at Shieldfield Newcastle-on-Tyne about 1890. Details about his parents are not known.
Robert married Annie Loftus in the Newcastle District in 1909. His wife, who was baptised a Roman Catholic, was living with her parents in Shieldfield in 1911 but there is no sign of Robert in the census, although she is shown as married.
Military records show Robert enlisted at Newcastle where he was in residence and his Pension Index Card documents his wife as Annie James, daughter Annie (born in 1912) and son Robert Thermonde James (1914 – 1940).
The 2nd Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers served with the British Expeditionary Force in 1914 at the crucial early battles of Le Chateau and on the Aisne.
Robert James is remembered in Stakeford and Bomarsund on S71.02, in Choppington C36.01 and in Bedlington on B15.06
