Lieutenant-Colonel James Valentine DSO (1887 – 1917) was an early English aviator who died during the First World War, serving in the Royal Flying Corps.

[4] In the Aerial Derby of eighty-one miles around London on 3 June 1912, Valentine was third flying a Bristol Prier monoplane.

[5] With the outbreak of the First World War Valentine joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1914.

On 7 August 1917 Valentine died aged 29 as result of wounds at Kieff in Russia (now Kyiv, Ukraine).

[1] He is commemorated on the Archangel Memorial to men who died in the north Russian campaign and whose graves are not known.