Colonel James Abercrombie (1732 – June 23, 1775) was a British army officer who died during the American Revolutionary War.
There is much uncertainty about Abercrombie's family. He may have been related to General James Abercrombie, but the Dictionary of Canadian Biography states that the common identification of him as the general's son or nephew is probably erroneous.
Abercrombie served in the French and Indian War as a captain in the 42nd Foot and served in the Battle of Fort Carillon under General Abercrombie as one of the general's aides in 1758 before being made aide-de-camp to General Amherst in 1759. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1770.
At the Battle of Bunker Hill he led the grenadier battalion in their charge of the redoubt on the Americans' left wing. During the assault he sustained a gunshot wound and was carried from the field. He was treated at a hospital facility in Boston, where he succumbed to his wound a week later.