Captain James Fullarton Caldwell CONN (1911)

1/7th Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
Born 12 April 1892
Died of wounds 1 May 1917, aged 25
Buried at Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. Also commemorated on the Tillicoultry war memorial.

James Conn was the only son of Reverend Joseph Conn and Christina, née Caldwell, of The Manse, Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire.

He was educated at Cargilfield and Fettes College before matriculating at Merton in 1911.

He enlisted on 5 October 1914 as a Second Lieutenant, and went to France in May 1915, where he was severely wounded in the shoulder and gassed, only returning to the front in early 1917.

Wounded in action on 23 April 1917, he died at Wimereux eight days later; his promotion to Captain was posthumous. His father died just over two years later. A window in Tillicoultry Parish Church was given in memory of them both by Mrs Conn.