JAMES SANTLEY 

Rank: Sergeant
Service Number:WR/552038.
Regiment: Inland Water Transport Royal Engineers
Died Tuesday 18th February 1919
Age 38
FromRuncorn.
County Memorial Runcorn
Commemorated\Buried Basra War Cemetery
Grave\Panel Ref: I.U.7.
CountryIraq

James's Story.

James Santley was born in around 1880 to Peter and Alice Santley of Runcorn. 
In 1901 he married Beatrice Jones from Middlewich and they had two children. 
Sarah Alice born around 1903 and Alfred born in 1905. 
In 1911 they are listed as living at 86 Church Street, Rucorn and James is listed as a Waterman. 

After his death in modern Iraq, the pension records show Beatrice living at 10 Kean Street, Warrington.

No other information can be found on James. 

Beatrice remarried in 1927 in Warrington to Alfred Harper

Compiled by Graeme Ainsworth.