Sutherland, JP
(1897 - 1917)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
11th January 1897
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1909 - 1912
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
Sainte Clotilde, Longton Avenue, Upper Sydenham
REGIMENT
2nd Battalion, The Royal Scots
FINAL RANK:
2nd Lieutenant
DATE OF DEATH:
9th April 1917
AGE AT DEATH:
20
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Tilloy-les-Mofflaines
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Tilloy British Cemetery, Tilloy-Les-Mofflaines. II H 24
2nd Lieutenant James Parker Sutherland
Jim was born on the Isle of Man on January 11th 1897, the son of a bank inspector, also named James Sutherland, and his wife, Ethel. He came to the College in September 1909, by which point the family were living in Sydenham, and was at Dulwich for the next three years. After leaving he went up to Yorkshire where he was involved in the process of studying farming.
Shortly after the declaration of War Jim enlisted in the West Yorkshire Regiment but was transferred just before Christmas that year to the Public Schools Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers. It was with this unit that he saw action for the first time, travelling over to the front in November 1915 and being posted at the Hohenzollern Redoubt. After six months or so he returned to England to train for a commission and was granted one in the Royal Scots in September 1916. He went back to France with his new unit that November and was stationed over the winter near Albert. On Easter Monday 1917, April 9th, he was killed whilst leading an assault at Tilloy-les-Mofflaines, near Arras, aged just 20.
