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The Roll lists him as J. Filby M.M. of Fletton, and states he died serving in the Norfolks attached to the Tank Corps; it lists no details of his date of death, regimental number or rank.
(CWGC records that Private James Arthur Filby M.M., regimental number 77465, died aged 20 on 9/8/1918 serving in the 8th Battalion Tank Corps, and is commemorated on Panel 11 of Vis-en-Artois Memorial in France. They record him as the son of Harry and Emma Ann Filby of Runcton Holme, King's Lynn. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that James was born in West Dereham and enlisted at Downham, Norfolk in the Norfolk Regiment under regimental number 2098, before later transferring to the Tank Corps. On the 1911 census he had been living with his parents at Roxham near Downham Market in Norfolk. His birth was registered as James Arthur Filby in 1897 in the Downham District).