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According to the 1911 census (Lehmann?) James Oppenheimer was 58 and surely therefore too old to have died at the Somme. Also he is recorded as being a Cotton Spinning Salesman, living in Manchester but born in Germany. There is no record of Lehmann Oppenheimer in that census. Ludwig Oppenheimer, however, is there present and recorded as a mosaics manufacturer. Who made the entry about Lehmann James and what is the source of this information?

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records Lehmann James Oppenheimer (1868-1916) as born in Manchester. He was the eldest son of Ludwig and Susan McCulloch Oppenheimer (nee Findlay), of Montrose; married Edith, daughter of Richard Newton, of Manchester, by profession a designer of mosaics, was an artist (exhibitor at the Royal Academy), member of the English "Climbers Club" and "Fell and Rock Club of the English Lake District", and author of The Heart of Lakeland (Sherratt and Hughes, London, 1908). Due to his general fitness, he was recruited into the army despite his middle age. He held the rank of Lieutenant, 2nd/23rd Bn., London Regiment. He was 48 at the time of his death, following a gas attack, in 1916 during the closing stages of the Battle of the Somme (July to November, 1916). Please see Commonwealth War Graves Commission record online http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=48333 and the Dictionary of Irish Architects, 1720-1940 http://www.dia.ie/architects/view/4230