Soldiers Died in the Great War states that he was born in Eston, Yorks, and enlisted in "Chevington, Suffolk"
Patrick Easen reports that Northumberland Record Office Ref. NRO 8703/1-4 contains an original scroll and a very fragile Memorial poster, both bearing the name of Cpl. James Dalby.
"By the Green of the Spring" A tribute to the men of Chevington and Broomhill who served in the First World War:; J.H. Hardy; 2004; Amble Social History Group.
James Dalby is remembered in Chevington on C27.01 and C27.02, in East Chevington on E7.01 and E7.02, in the Battalion History and in the Alnwick Gazette Almanack page 48.
