Key Information
Name: JAMES FRENCH Fearnley
DoB: 9th June 1920
Regt:
Sergeant
999804, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
DoD:
30/11/1943 23
Buried: VICTORIA (ROYAL OAK) BURIAL PARK, Canada.
Canada
Academic Career: CGS 1928-37
Other:
Biographical Information
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Family Background: Son of Arthur and Anne Jane Fearnley, of Brampton, Cumberland, England. Father was born in Oakham, Rutland and Mother in Carlisle. James was born in Longtown.
Arthur served in the Northumberland Fusiliers in the First World War. He was shot but the bullet hit his paybook, saving his life.
Father – Publican. In 1921 he was at the Globe in Longtown; in 1939, he was at the Bluebell Inn, Scotch Street, Carlisle.
In 1939 also living with the family was Agnes Fearnley, widowed, aged 79 (Grandmother).
As James was killed the family was living at The Bush Hotel, Brampton, Cumberland.
Arthur died in 1947, Anne in 1962.
Inscription on the grave: An Only Child Make him to be numbered with thy saints in glory everlasting.
It is poignant to note James’s mother visited the grave in 1950.
