When James William Cuff Aggiss was born in July 1890, in Hadleigh, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, his father, Francis Aggiss, was 36 and his mother, Ellen Elizabeth Jackson, was 33. He married Violet Mabel Emeney in July 1914, in Cosford, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He died in 1971, in Perth, Western Australia, Australia, at the age of 81.