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Corporal
James Dutton 19353
14th King's Liverpool Regiment
Son
of Robert Dutton of Higher End, Bickerstaffe.
He
enlisted in Southport and joined his regiment in September 1914. His posting was
to Greece where he was involved in the action at Salonica.
At
7.30pm on 13th September 1916, James with his regiment made a raid into no mans
land at the Dorsale, north of Muchukova and west of Doiran. The foray followed a
three day bombardment on the German and Bulgarian positions.
The
next day, his and other regiments withdrew under severe enemy machine gun fire
from a point known as "The Dome", suffering 586 casualties, including
James. He was 35 years old.
Commemoration is on the
Greek, Serbian border, 47 miles north of Thessaloniki.
