Key Information<\/strong><\/h2>\nName:\u00a0<\/strong>James Herbert Batey
DoB: \u00a0<\/strong>November 6 1893
Regt: \u00a0<\/strong>S\/8625 Lance Corporal Gordon Highlanders
<\/strong>DoD:\u00a0<\/strong>May 16 1915
<\/strong>Academic Career<\/strong>:\u00a0CGS 1907-08<\/p><\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n \n \n\n \n ![\"batey\"](\"https:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/batey.jpg\" "\\"batey\\"")
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\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n \n J H Batey Longtown Memorial\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n \n\n Biographical Information<\/h3>\n \n - \n \n \n Family Background <\/a>\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n \n\n \n
James was one of thirteen children born to James and Elizabeth Batey, a well known Longtown family who had a gamedealer\u2019s business at 37 English Street for many years. The Batey family had farmed in the area for at least eight generations! James\u2019s mother was Elizabeth Newby before she married. His father died in 1931 and his mother in 1945.<\/p>\n
After James left school he joined the family business in Longtown. On enlistment he described himself as a fishmonger.<\/strong><\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n - \n \n \n Academic Record <\/a>\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n \n\n \n
He was a gymnast and played centre forward in the football team. The end of season report described him as\u00a0\u201ca useful player, unselfish and fast\u201d\u00a0<\/i>he scored seven goals during the season. Two of James\u2019s brothers also attended CGS.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n - \n \n \n War Service <\/a>\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n \n\n \n
James enlisted at Dumfries, joining the 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0Battalion Gordon Highlanders on January 11 1915. He was 5ft 7\u201d tall, and \u00a0weighed 11 stone! He embarked at Southampton on March 24 1915, having been made acting corporal on\u00a0March 9. He was killed in action just 52 days after leaving Southampton.\u00a0 He died in the battle for Festubert and is commemorated on the memorial at LeTouret and is one of the 13,394 men who died in that area who have no known grave.\u00a0The inscription on the memorial states \u201cTo the Glory of God and in Memory of 13,482 British officers and men who fell fighting in this neighbourhood from October 1914 to September 1915 whose names are here recorded but to whom the fortune of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n - \n \n \n Battalion <\/a>\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n \n\n \n
Acting Lance Corporal 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0Battalion Gordon Highlanders\u00a0S\/8625<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n - \n \n \n Other <\/a>\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n \n\n \n
He is also commemorated on Longtown War Memorial and on his parents\u2019 headstone in Arthuret Churchyard, Longtown.<\/p>\n
His obituary in the Cumberland News (29\/5\/1915) says \u201c\u00a0He was a strong well built lad and a type of the British soldier keen at all kinds of sport, and held in the greatest esteem by all who knew him<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n
Two weeks later on the 12th<\/sup>\u00a0June his parents placed this notice in the Cumberland News<\/p>\n\u201c\u00a0Mr & Mrs James Batey and family desire to thank all friends for their kind expressions of sympathy in their recent bereavement<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n
James\u2019s brother John survived WW1 but was an invalid for the rest of his life. His son John Keith Batey also attended Carlisle grammar school. He was a gifted mathematician and he won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge. In WW2 he was recruited to work at Bletchley Park, and he\u00a0was one of the team who cracked the codes on the enigma machines. After the war he had a distinguished career in the foreign office and civil service.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n
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DoB: \u00a0<\/strong>November 6 1893
Regt: \u00a0<\/strong>S\/8625 Lance Corporal Gordon Highlanders
<\/strong>DoD:\u00a0<\/strong>May 16 1915
<\/strong>Academic Career<\/strong>:\u00a0CGS 1907-08<\/p><\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n
\n <\/div>\n \n \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n \n \n Biographical Information<\/h3>\n \n - \n \n \n Family Background <\/a>\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n \n\n \n
James was one of thirteen children born to James and Elizabeth Batey, a well known Longtown family who had a gamedealer\u2019s business at 37 English Street for many years. The Batey family had farmed in the area for at least eight generations! James\u2019s mother was Elizabeth Newby before she married. His father died in 1931 and his mother in 1945.<\/p>\n
After James left school he joined the family business in Longtown. On enlistment he described himself as a fishmonger.<\/strong><\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n - \n \n \n Academic Record <\/a>\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n \n\n \n
He was a gymnast and played centre forward in the football team. The end of season report described him as\u00a0\u201ca useful player, unselfish and fast\u201d\u00a0<\/i>he scored seven goals during the season. Two of James\u2019s brothers also attended CGS.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n - \n \n \n War Service <\/a>\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n \n\n \n
James enlisted at Dumfries, joining the 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0Battalion Gordon Highlanders on January 11 1915. He was 5ft 7\u201d tall, and \u00a0weighed 11 stone! He embarked at Southampton on March 24 1915, having been made acting corporal on\u00a0March 9. He was killed in action just 52 days after leaving Southampton.\u00a0 He died in the battle for Festubert and is commemorated on the memorial at LeTouret and is one of the 13,394 men who died in that area who have no known grave.\u00a0The inscription on the memorial states \u201cTo the Glory of God and in Memory of 13,482 British officers and men who fell fighting in this neighbourhood from October 1914 to September 1915 whose names are here recorded but to whom the fortune of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n - \n \n \n Battalion <\/a>\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n \n\n \n
Acting Lance Corporal 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0Battalion Gordon Highlanders\u00a0S\/8625<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n - \n \n \n Other <\/a>\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n \n\n \n
He is also commemorated on Longtown War Memorial and on his parents\u2019 headstone in Arthuret Churchyard, Longtown.<\/p>\n
His obituary in the Cumberland News (29\/5\/1915) says \u201c\u00a0He was a strong well built lad and a type of the British soldier keen at all kinds of sport, and held in the greatest esteem by all who knew him<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n
Two weeks later on the 12th<\/sup>\u00a0June his parents placed this notice in the Cumberland News<\/p>\n\u201c\u00a0Mr & Mrs James Batey and family desire to thank all friends for their kind expressions of sympathy in their recent bereavement<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n
James\u2019s brother John survived WW1 but was an invalid for the rest of his life. His son John Keith Batey also attended Carlisle grammar school. He was a gifted mathematician and he won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge. In WW2 he was recruited to work at Bletchley Park, and he\u00a0was one of the team who cracked the codes on the enigma machines. After the war he had a distinguished career in the foreign office and civil service.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n
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James was one of thirteen children born to James and Elizabeth Batey, a well known Longtown family who had a gamedealer\u2019s business at 37 English Street for many years. The Batey family had farmed in the area for at least eight generations! James\u2019s mother was Elizabeth Newby before she married. His father died in 1931 and his mother in 1945.<\/p>\n
After James left school he joined the family business in Longtown. On enlistment he described himself as a fishmonger.<\/strong><\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n He was a gymnast and played centre forward in the football team. The end of season report described him as\u00a0\u201ca useful player, unselfish and fast\u201d\u00a0<\/i>he scored seven goals during the season. Two of James\u2019s brothers also attended CGS.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n James enlisted at Dumfries, joining the 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0Battalion Gordon Highlanders on January 11 1915. He was 5ft 7\u201d tall, and \u00a0weighed 11 stone! He embarked at Southampton on March 24 1915, having been made acting corporal on\u00a0March 9. He was killed in action just 52 days after leaving Southampton.\u00a0 He died in the battle for Festubert and is commemorated on the memorial at LeTouret and is one of the 13,394 men who died in that area who have no known grave.\u00a0The inscription on the memorial states \u201cTo the Glory of God and in Memory of 13,482 British officers and men who fell fighting in this neighbourhood from October 1914 to September 1915 whose names are here recorded but to whom the fortune of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n Acting Lance Corporal 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0Battalion Gordon Highlanders\u00a0S\/8625<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n He is also commemorated on Longtown War Memorial and on his parents\u2019 headstone in Arthuret Churchyard, Longtown.<\/p>\n His obituary in the Cumberland News (29\/5\/1915) says \u201c\u00a0He was a strong well built lad and a type of the British soldier keen at all kinds of sport, and held in the greatest esteem by all who knew him<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n Two weeks later on the 12th<\/sup>\u00a0June his parents placed this notice in the Cumberland News<\/p>\n \u201c\u00a0Mr & Mrs James Batey and family desire to thank all friends for their kind expressions of sympathy in their recent bereavement<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n James\u2019s brother John survived WW1 but was an invalid for the rest of his life. His son John Keith Batey also attended Carlisle grammar school. He was a gifted mathematician and he won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge. In WW2 he was recruited to work at Bletchley Park, and he\u00a0was one of the team who cracked the codes on the enigma machines. After the war he had a distinguished career in the foreign office and civil service.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n