2nd Lieut. James Elliot Balfour-Melville

Balfour-Melville, James Elliot: 2nd Lieutenant, 3rd attached 2nd Black Watch. Born on 08/07/1882 at Edinburgh. A son of Leslie Melville Balfour Melville, Writer to the Signet & Sportman, and Jeanie Amelia Balfour Melville of 3 Learmonth Terrace, Edinburgh. 2nd Lieutenant Balfour-Melville was educated at Cargilfield Preparatory School, Edinburgh Academy 1889-1891] and Oriel College, Oxford [1901]. He was employed as a Chartered Accountant initially with Messrs Lindsay, Jameson & Haldane then Messrs Guild & Shepherd and was a well known cricketer at the Grange Cricket Club. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Black Watch on 03/11/1914 and was attached to the 2nd Black Watch, entering France as a theatre of war on 18/05/1915. He was killed in action on 25/09/1915, aged 33, at the Battle of Loos and is remembered on the Loos Memorial, Pas-de-Calais, France, Panel 78 to 83. He was awarded the 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal & Victory Medal and is mentioned in the Edinburgh Academy Register1824-1914, the War Supplement to Edinburgh Academy Register, De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour 1914-1918 and a short biographical note in The Scotsman, 04/10/1915. He is remembered on The Grange Cricket Club Memorial.

Source: http://www.edinburghs-war.ed.ac.uk/system/files/PDF_grange.pdf

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