James Weller was a Private with 5th Battalion Essex Regiment.
He was the son of Alice Rose Weller of Tilbury.
Whilst working at East Tilbury he initially employed in the Rubber Factory before transferring to the Building Department.
In a letter to the Bata Record just before he died he says that he had received his Christmas Parcel which gave him strength and fortitude to carry on with the task which lay before him.
James died in Italy on Sunday 9th January 1944, aged 25.
James Robert Weller
