Rank
Pte
Service No.
726089
Unit
109th Btn; 21th Btn.
Died
11 November, 1917
Age 40
Age 40
Commemorated
Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial, Belgium - Panel 18-24-16-30
Remembrance:
First World War Book of Remembrance - Page 209
Additional Info
James John Budd was born 4 April 1877 in Worcestershire, England to William and Eva Budd. He was the 3rd oldest of 6 children, and by 14 was listed on the 1891 England Census as a servant on the farm of John Butler. In 1909 James married Mary Lilian Isabella Suddaby of Burnt River, and they went on to have 2 boys and a girl. After James was killed, Mary remarried and moved to Cleveland OH.
Listed as an insurance agent under his occupation, James originally enlisted with the 109th Battalion in Kinmount, Ontario on 7 January 1916 before being transferred to the 21st Battalion upon arriving in France.
The 21st Battalion war diary doesn’t list any specific activity during the period that James was killed, but the War Graves Register states that “during the operations in the vicinity of Passchendaele, he was hit on the head by a fragment from an enemy shell, and instantly killed”. It also lists his grave as “In a shell hole”. His body was not recovered.
James John Budd’s name is on the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing, in Ypres, France, commemorating the British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the Ypres Salient of World War I and whose graves are unknown. He was 40 years old.
Attestation and other Documents (pdf, 52 pages - 13MB)
