More about James Gordon Falconer

James is remembered on the Harris Academy, Dundee Roll of Honour. James enlisted as a Sapper with the City of Dundee Royal Engineers, he was transferred to the Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry, late 1916, and was serving with them in France early in 1917. Six months later he was attached to the Trench Motrar Battery, and he had only served with them for one week when he was killed in action just outside Ypres. His Captain wrote:— “I was struck by his confident and fearless manner, and gave him important work to do, because I knew he would carry out all his orders to the minutest detail. His company commander in the battalion had nothing but praise of him. He is now buried outside Ypres, and I am sure will rank among the best of the brave men who have fallen in the third battle of Ypres.”

A comrade in arms, who had been through the battle with him wrote:— “He brought up the party  for which he was acting as guide with splendid courage and skill, through some very heavy shelling. Just as he got to the place a single shell came over, and the shock of the explosion must have killed him. His work was done, and he fell as he would have wished, facing the enemy, calm, brave, and unmoved, and unshaken by the enemy fire.”

Gordon is also remembered on the Carnoustie War Memorial, Panbride Church War Moemorial and Carnoustie Golf Club Memorial.