Captain James Henderson
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Captain (Army).
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His grave marker at Toronto's Prospect Cemetery reads:
IN MEMORY OF
CAPTAIN JAMES HENDERSON RAMC
BORN MARCH 28 1878
DIED JULY 16 1917 FROM
ILLNESS CONTRACTED
IN MESOPOTAMIA
From the University of Toronto Roll of Service:
JAMES HENDERSON March 28, 1878 - July 16, 1917
Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps.
Son of the late James Henderson; b. Toronto; ed. Barrie P.S. and C.I.; Trinity Medical College 1898-1902, M.D., C.M.; Practising at Sudbury and Regina; Served in S. African War; 16th Light Horse, Capt.
He joined the First Contingent in August 1914 with the 16th Light Horse from Saskatchewan but was invalided the same autumn. A year later he was appointed to the R.A.M.C., and went to France in September 1915, attached to the Meerut Indian Division (Sikhs and Gurkhas). In January 1916 he went with the same force to Mesopotamia and served in the attempt to relieve Kut. He was invalided in May 1916, and in May 1917 he returned to Canada on leave and died two months later at his home in Toronto.