Second Lieutenant James Lindsay Sutherland, 23rd Battalion Middlesex Regiment, December 1915

Photograph, World War One (1914-1918), 1915 (c).

James Sutherland had previously served as a private in the 6th Battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders before being commissioned on 1 December 1915. He was killed in action at Pilckem Ridge on 31 July 1917, the opening day of the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele).