Notes
The Roll lists his address as 7 Field Street. It states he died of wounds, whereas official records indicate that he died of dysentery.
(CWGC records that Private James Whyle, regimental number 9267, died aged 29 on 24/7/1915 serving in 2nd Battalion of the South Wales Borderers, and is commemorated on Stone 84A of Helles Memorial in Turkey. They record him as the son of the late James and Martha Ann Whyle.
The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that James Whyle died from dysentery on hospital ship Neuralia, and that his father James was his legatee. The Medal Rolls record that he disembarked in the Asiatic Theatre on 23/9/1915, and that he was attached to the 29th Divisional H.Q.
The birth of James Joseph Whyle was registered in the Peterborough District in 1885. On 1/11/1885 he was baptised at St Paul's Church in Peterborough as the son of James and Martha Ann Whyle of Millfield. On the 1891 census he was living with his parents at 7 Crawthorne Road in Peterborough. On the 1901 census the family was living in the Minster Precincts in Peterborough. On the 1911 census James was serving as a Private in the 1st Battalion of the South Wales Borderers, based at Chatham in Kent.
On 4/12/1915 the Peterborough Advertiser announced James' death, mentioning that he had completed 9 years' Army service on 3/7/1915, and had taken part in operations at Tsing-Tau in 1914. The report stated that James had returned to Peterborough in early 1915, and had then proceeded to the Dardanelles, where he was wounded on 28th April by a bullet that passed through his right ear. He was reported to have quickly recovered from that wound and had written to his parents in July that he would soon be back in the trenches. The newspaper reported that he had died from wounds on the hospital ship Neuralia. [This misleading report doubtless gave rise to the inaccurate cause of death being listed on the Roll. The official communique from the War Office quoted by the newspaper had merely stated James' place of death; it made no mention of the cause].
James Joseph Whyle is commemorated on his parents' headstone in Broadway Cemetery in Peterborough- see WMR ref 70044).