2nd Lieutenant Lawrence Cave Blencowe. 1/10th Battalion Kings Liverpool Regiment (Liverpool Scottish) Killed in Action 29th June 1917 aged 30

PRIVATE 3229 JAMES ARTHUR LUND, ARMY CYCLE CORPS (17^th DIVISION), DIED OF WOUNDS 21^st FEBRUARY 1916

James Arthur Lund was another member of the original Ilkley Pals Company who had been formed on 31st August 1914. He claimed to be 19 years of age at enlistment but was in fact only 17 years. James soon tired of life as an infantryman and in February 1915 transferred to the Army Cyclist Corps who had responsibility for delivering messages. On 15th February 1916 James and other members of his unit were involved in a bombing raid at a feature known as ‘The Bluff’ in the Ypres Salient when he received a wound to the left thigh. The Ilkley Gazette reported that this was from an exploding trench mortar, although, his medical records says that it was a gunshot wound. Whatever the cause of the injury it was serious as the majority of thigh wounds, at this stage of the war, would prove fatal. James was moved back to the large Military General Hospital at Etaples where he died at 8.15am on 21st February, from a haemorrhage.James lived with his parents in Ben Rhydding in a cottage on Wharfedale Grange Farm. It was owned by John King who, coincidentally, would die during the Battle of the Somme. He worked on local farms and also for John Nunns, a local coal merchant. In his spare time James played football at Ilkley RFC and probably enlisted with many of his team-mates. A few months after their son’s death his parents received his effects, a broken watch, cigarette case, a steel mirror, a letter, a photograph and a brass ring along with £6.13s. 3d (£6.67). Private James Lund lies in the Military Cemetery at Etaples. On his grave his parents had carved "He giveth his beloved sleep" (Psalm 127). James is also remembered with pride on Ilkley War Memorial.