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Barbour James Cllr

James Barbour James Barbour was born around 1893 and served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War. He was first elected as a Communist Councillor in Perth, Scotland, in 1928. Having […]

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Clough James

James Clough  During the height of the Second World War, whilst on active duty with RAF 149 Squadron, Flight Sergeant Air-Gunner James Algernon Clough prepared a letter to his parents, James and Kate Clough, which […]

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James KIm

Kim James Born in the 1920s, Kim James was a modern renaissance man all to himself.  He served in the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment during the Second World War when he joined the Communist Party. He […]

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James Tommy

Tommy James   Tommy (T H) James was born in 1898 and began work in 1912 at Rotherham Main Colliery. After a spell in the army during world war one, he found himself unemployed and […]

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Klugmann James

James Klugmann     The son of a prosperous Jewish merchant, James Klugmann was actually born Norman John Klugmann in London 0n 27th February 1912. In his youth, he started using James as a first name […]

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Boswell James

James Boswell James Edward Buchanan Boswell was born on June 9th 1906 in Hokitika  (Westport), on New Zealand‘s South Island. His father was a Scottish-born schoolmaster, Edward Boswell; his New Zealander mother was Ida Fair. Jim […]