WITTERSHAM - Kent Fallen

RUSSELL J.G
(brother)
Private T/1431 James George RUSSELL. 5 th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Died
Friday 21 st January 1916 aged 24 years. Born Wittersham, Kent. Enlisted Tenterden. Son of
James Woollett of Moons Green, Wittersham, Kent. Buried in the Amara War Cemetery, Iraq.
Grave reference XVII.J.13.
Before the outbreak of war James had worked at Mr Banisters Mill in the village as a Loader.
The day that James was killed the 5 th battalion carried out an attack at the Umm-el-Hanna Lines
in Iraq. The attack proved a failure and the battalion had to entrench itself and wait for
reinforcements. A number of officers were killed together with over 50 men. The weather was
terribly wet and by the evening that day the trenches were full of water.
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