M. E. Clifton James M. E. Clifton James Meyrick Edward Clifton James (April 1898 – 8 May 1963) was an actor and soldier, with a resemblance to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. This was used by British intelligence as part of a deception campaign during the Second World War. Clifton James was born in Perth, Western Australia, the youngest son of notable Australian public servant John Charles Horsey James and his wife Rebecca Catherine Clifton. After serving in the Royal Fusiliers during the First World War, and seeing action at the Battle of the Somme, he took up acting, "starting at 15 shillings weekly with
James Harris (cricketer, born 1838) at the Cape of Good Hope, from which he retired in 1894. In 1898 he is reported as living at Earsham Hall, Norfolk (but which is near to Bungay, Suffolk), but he later retired to his home county of Leicestershire where he became a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant. He died aged 87 in Sharnford, near Hinckley, Leicestershire. James Harris (cricketer, born 1838) James Edward Harris (1 October 1838 – 30 November 1925) was an English soldier and a cricketer who played in four important matches for Cambridge University in 1859. He was born and also died