About James Majury
Lived 1921 – 1996 (aged 75). James Majury was a military leader.
Major-General James Herbert Samuel Majury (26 June 1921 – 4 September 1996) was a British Army officer.
Military career Educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Trinity College Dublin, Majury received a wartime commission into the Royal Ulster Rifles in 1941. He was attached to the Indian Army in 1942 and served with the South Waziristan Scouts on the North West Frontier for most of the rest of the Second World War. and not released until August 1953.
In 1948 he married Jeanetta Ann Le Fleming in 1948; they had two sons.
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James Majury was born on 26 June 1921.
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James Majury died on 4 September 1996.
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