File:2nd Lieutenant James Douglas Herbert Farmer (6286290932).jpg
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9th Battery, 41st Brigade, Royal Field Artillery 2nd Lt Farmer (centre back row) with his family in the garden of their home at Mundesley, Norfolk. Lt Farmer was the second of five service sons of Lieutenant J H Farmer (late attached officer, War Office) and Mrs Farmer (District Representative of the Red Cross Society and member of the War Agricultural Committee). James was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and gazetted as second lieutenant to the Royal Field Artillery in 1913. On the outbreak of war, he was posted to the Western Front with 9th Battery, 41st Brigade. Lt Farmer was killed in action, aged 21, on 4 November 1914. He is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial and buried at Eksternest cemetery. Photo also shows: Lieutenant F S H Farmer (Special Reserves of Officers, 3rd Attached and 2nd Norfolks); Lieutenant L G H Farmer (Royal Navy, served on HMS Colossus in the North Sea and Flag Lieutenant to Naval Commander in Chief, East Indies); Lieutenant C R H Farmer (18th Hussars, Motor Machine Guns Section) and G A H Farmer (Honourable Artillery Company). Photograph presented by his father Lieutenant J H Farmer, Norfolk. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces This image is from IWM Collections.
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