| Name | 
James SWEETLAND (d)   | 
   
  
  | Rank/Number | 
  Private  / 20122 | 
   
  
  | Regiment/Unit | 
  Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry / No 3 Supernumery Coy | 
   
  
  | Enlisted | 
  Aylesbury  | 
   
  
  | Age/Date of death | 
  60 / 29 Dec 1916  | 
   
  
  | How died/Theatre of war | 
  Died / Home | 
   
  
  | Residence at death | 
  5 George St, Chesham  | 
   
  
  | Cemetery | 
  Chesham Burial Ground, Bucks  | 
   
  
  | Grave Reference | 
     | 
   
  
  | Location of memorial | 
  Chesham Church  |    
  
  | Date/Place of birth | 
  c1857 / Street, Somerset | 
   
  
  | Date/Place of baptism | 
    | 
   
  
  | Occupation of Casualty | 
  shoemaker  | 
   
  
  | Parents/Occupation | 
  Robert (late) & Susannah Sweetland / cordwainer | 
   
  
  | Parents' Address | 
  1861: 60 Milk St, Bristol  | 
   
  
  | Wife | 
  Rose A Sweetland nee Axten  | 
   
  
  | Wife's Address | 
  5 George St, Chesham  | 
   
  
  | Notes | 
  not on CWGC or SDGW. Discharged Apr 1916. Buried 3 Jan 1917.  Served R Irish Lancers in India & Egypt pre WW1.  Father of Harry Sweetland on Amersham War Memorial. Stepfather in 1871 was James Durston of Street  | 
   
   
 
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