HARRIS James Walter

  • First Name(s):
    James 
    Walter 
  • Surname:
    HARRIS
  • Service Number:
    5052920
  • Rank:

    Fusilier

  • Conflict:
    WW2
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Royal Fusiliers
  • Battalion:
    9th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    6th September 1944
  • Age At Death:
    24
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Coriano Ridge War Cemetery, Italy, Grave V. A. 2.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Walter and Ada Harris of Stourbridge, Worcestershire; husband of Cynthia Harris, of Stourbridge

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HARRIS James Walter Is Named On These Memorials

Stourbridge War Memorial
Wollaston St James’s Church

Further Information About HARRIS James Walter

Appears on the Army casualties list for Worcestershire.

A letter from H.J. Winnington, Honorary Secretary of PCC, St James Church, Wollaston dated 17th December 1950 can be found within war records held at Worcestershire Archives requesting that Fusilier James W. Harris, Royal Fusiliers be added to the county roll of honour.

The following information has been researched by The Black Country Society:
James Harris was the son of Walter and Ada Harris of Beauty Bank Crescent, Wollaston. He enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers and joined the 9th Battalion. They were part of the 1st (London) Brigade in the 1st (London) Division. In 1943 they served in the last stages of the North African campaign and in the capture of Tunis. They followed up this success by taking part in the Salerno landings and the capture of Naples. In 1944 they were in the Anzio landings and endured the long struggle to get off the beach head. The enemy fell back to the Gothic Line near Rimini and the Fusiliers exchanged the western coast of Italy for the eastern coast. This switch provided an element of surprise and with 5 Corps they broke through the end of the Gothic Line near San Marino in August. In the following days they attacked along the Coriano Ridge but grim German resistance and heavy rains on the 6th September called a halt to the advance. Fusilier James Harris was killed on this day.

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