An old soldier remembers fallen from an earlier war
A WORLD War Two veteran remembered his Uncle James on Remembrance Sunday.
Joe Weaver, 87, served as a bombardier in the Royal Artillery between 1940 and 1946, and was involved in the Normandy landings in 1944.
His uncle, Pte James Edwards was called up at Dewsbury, and served in the Cameronian Scottish Rifles in World War One. Joe said James was killed in action on July 22, 1918, aged 23.
Joe, who lives in Mount Avenue, Heckmondwike, said: "Killed on the same day were uncle James's friend James Duncan McNae and Lt Spiers.
"I was thinking of them when I laid my wreath on Sunday."
A report in the News at the time of James's death said his mother, Kate Edwards, lived at Ambler Street in Batley.
It said James had been enlisted in the early days of the war, and had already been wounded twice.
James was a miner at Howley Park Colliery in Batley, and was connected with St Mary's Church in Cross Bank.
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