In Memory Of

CUTHBERT, JAMES HAROLD

Service Details
Age:
 39
Date of Birth:
 1876-07-21
Rank:
 Captain
Unit:
 1st Bn.
Regiment:
 Scots Guards
Date of Death:
 1915-09-27
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Battle of Loos, while leading the right flank Coy.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Panel 8 and 9.
Cemetery:
 LOOS MEMORIAL
Localitly:
 Pas de Calais
Country:
 France
Additional Information
Decorations:
 D S O, Mentioned in Despatches (twice)
Citations:
 DSO 19 April 1901 " In recognition of services during operations in South Africa", 1st MID 16 March 1900 "Having shown considerable coolness in taking a message from Lord Methuen to the Gordon Highlanders", 2nd MID LG Sup 1 January 1916 pg. 30
Son of Sidney and Frances Y. Cuthbert. Husband of Kathleen Cuthbert, O.B.E. (now Lady Rayleigh, of Beaufront Castle, Hexham, Northumberland, and Terling Place, Chelmsford). Born Melster, Pietermaritizburg, South Africa. Educated Sandroyd, Eton and Royal Military College. Won the Army Revolver Championship in 1904, and published "The 1st Battalion Scots Guards in South Africa, 1899-1902". His sons Gerald Ivo Cuthbert and Sidney John Cuthbert fell in the 1939-1945 war.