Company Quartermaster Sergeant James Mason, Expeditionary Force East Africa, contracted a fatal illness whilst engaged in East Africa as a Physical Training Instructor for the indigenous troops there. Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Mason, husband of Letitia Mason, of Wishaw, Lanarkshire. Secondary unit listed by the CWGC as Commando [1][2][3]. 

The Tank Museum have a record of him joining the 52nd Recce from the 6th Cameronians before commando service. Their Casualty card states he died in Kampala Hospital [4].

A married man with a 6 year old son, James Mason lived in Golfhill Road, Craigneuk. He was employed as a miner at the Shields Colliery. He served in the Wishaw company of the Cameronians (Territorials) for 10 years and was called up for service at the outbreak of war. Evacuated from Brest in France as a member of the BEF, he was sent to East Africa 17 months prior to his death [2].