BORN ARKLOW, COUNTY WICKLOW, IRELAND, ON 07/10/1898. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF CHARLES AUSTIN & JANE O’NEIL, AT THIS ADDRESS (HDM 18/03/1919). HIS FATHER WAS A RETIRED PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER, (1ST OXFORD LIGHT INFANTRY), WHO RE-ENLISTED AND SERVED THROUGHOUT THE WAR IN ENGLAND . JOSEPH AUSTIN ENLISTED IN HULL. EX 3057 EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE 18TH GLASGOW YEOMANRY. KILLED IN ACTION, AT THE SOMME, ON 26/03/1918, AGED 19. COMMEMORATED AT THE POZIERES MEMORIAL. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, JANE. HIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS PRINTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 1ST MAY 1919. *
First name:
JOSEPH JAMES
Military Number:
202610
Rank:
Private
Date Died
26/03/1918
Place died:
Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
19
3 CARLTON AVENUE, VICTOR STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Place Buried
