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J T Balfour
Lossiemouth/Hamburg
Shown as a professional golfer in the roll of prisoners taken by the US Embassy in Berlin, with the help of the prisoners themselves, twice in 1915 and once in 1916, [National Archives MT 9/1094] it lists James Thomson Balfour as living in Lossiemouth before the war and then at 22 Kückallee in Reinbek. The Lossie connection is confirmed by the 1911 census which shows him living at home with his parents, aged 23, at Isla Cottage, 54 Kinneddar Street, Lossiemouth and, along with his 19 year old brother, Henry, employed as clubmakers at the golf course. This suggests they were working for Charles Neaves at the local Moray club. Henry was killed serving as a Sergeant with the Seaforth Highlanders in 1918.

The address in Reinbek implies he was either an assistant professional or clubmaker at the Wentorf-Reinbek club beside Hamburg when he had the misfortune to be interned in Ruhleben.

I can find no record of him as a golf professional after the war.

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