Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Dalrymple James Belgrave a Barrister at Law, (Inner Temple), born 1851 in Southsea, Hants., and his wife Isabella, born 1861 in Shotby Bridge, Co. Durham. James Dacres was born in 1896 in Kensington, London, in March 1901 he was, together with his parents lodging at 30, Gordon Place, Kensington, London, in the Ecclesiastical Parish of St. Mary Abbots. In April 1911 James was a Schoolboy attending Bedford Grammar School and was residing at 22, Merton Road, Bedford together with his parents and brother Charles Dalrymple, born 1895 in Montreux, Switzerland. James was killed in aerial combat.