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“If you think, have a kindly thought, If you speak, speak generously, Of those who as heroes fought And died to keep you free”
Set up by the Black Country Society. Our aim is to highlight local men who died in the Great War and how they have been commemorated on war memorials. Its scope covers the whole of the present Dudley Municipal Borough and therefore includes the places which have come within its bounds since 1914.
There are over fifty memorials and the number of names exceeds three thousand. Research on the names has been extensive but inevitably errors and omissions occur. We would like to hear about them concentrated on life and work before 1914, involvement in military campaigns and where each man is buried or commemorated.
James Bucknall lived at 126 Northfield, Netherton, and was an early volunteer for the Worcesters. He was sent to the 3rd Battalion on the Western Front and joined them in Artois early in 1915. He is buried in Bedford House No 2 Cemetery (IV B 19) and commemorated on the Dudley Memorial.
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