On 15 Feb 1902. Lieutenant James Cuthbert (age 25) was discharged from hospital for work duties after recovering from being dangerously ill with enteric fever.

20 Mar 1902. Lieutenant J.H. Cuthbert (age 25) was now on the S.S. Roslin Castle, which left Cape Town for England as dangerously ill with Enteric Fever.

In 1911 Captain James Harold Cuthbert (age 34) was appointed High Sheriff of Northumberland.

After 27 Sep 1915. St John Lee Church, Hexham [Map]. Monument to Captain James Harold Cuthbert (deceased),

Northern Echo. 04 Oct 1915. News has reached Hexham that Captain J. Harold Cuthbert (deceased), D.S.O., of Beaufront Castle, is reported as wounded and missing. Captain Cuthbert, who won his D.S.O. in the South African War, was on the reserve of officers, and after the commencement of the war, re-joined the army, and was for some time adjutant to the Irish Guards in London. He, however, was attached to his old regiment-the Scots Guards-when they went out to the Front. Captain Cuthbert is a son-in-law of Mr John C. Straker, of the Leazes, Hexham, and has filled the office of High Sheriff of his county.

Belfast News. 06 Oct 1915. Captain J. H. Cuthbert (deceased), D.S.O., Beaufrout Castle, Northumberland (wounded and missing), is a son-in-law of the Earl of Strafford through his marriage with the late Lady Dorothy Byng whose sister, Lady Joan Byng, is the widow of Captain Honourable A. E. S. Mulholland, Irish Guards, eldest son of Lord Dunleath, Ballywalter, County Down, who was killed in action last year.

Newcastle Journal. 05 Nov 1915. Captain Cuthbert was killed at the Battle of Loos, whilst leading the Right Flank Company of which he was in command. He and a few men managed to reach Puits 14, along with a Second Lieutenant Crabbe and half a dozen Grenadiers, later reinforced by a platoon of the 3rd Grenadier Guards under Lieutenant Ayres-Ritchie. But under the intense enfilading fire from Hill 70 and Bois Hugo forest they had to pull back. A general retirement followed. The War Diary... shortly before 5pm the men in and beyond the PUITS commenced to retire, and fell back into and through CHALK PIT WOOD in some confusion. The C.O. and [the] Adjutant went forward through the wood to clear up the situation, and while going through the wood Capt. and [the] Adjutant the Honourable T. Vessey was wounded and carried away.