On the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial, Belgium is the name of Captain James Pyman, serving with the 3rd Battalion Border Regiment, attached to the ‘C’ Company, 2nd Battalion King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry who died 18/11/1914.

The son of the late James and Emily Pyman, of Newcastle upon Tyne.

In Newcastle (Old Jesmond) Cemetery is a headstone for Pyman, on one side of which is:

Also of James, their younger son,
Captain, 3rd Border Regiment
Killed in the trenches near Hooge, Belgium,
On November 18th 1914, aged 31 years.
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

James Pyman was born on the 12th August 1883, the youngest son of  James Pyman, of Newcastle upon Tyne, Shipowner, and his wife Emily, daughter of John Sutcliffe, of Stallingbro Manor, Lincolnshire.

James was educated at Mill Hill and Hameln, near Hanover in Germany.

He was gazetted a Lieutenant in the 3rd (Militia) Borderers on the 20th May 1903.

Promoted a Captain on the 10th May 1906. He later joined the Reserve of Officers, but on the outbreak of War in August 1914, he re-joined his Regiment.

James went to France on the 14th October, and was attached to the 2nd Battalion King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry regiment.

He was killed in action near Hooge, on the 18th November, by a high explosive shell, after being buried alive with four other men.

Source: De Ruvigny Roll of Honour

James Pyman is remembered in Alnmouth on A10.12 and Newcastle in Northern Counties Club meeting