BORN ARKLOW, COUNTY WICKLOW, IRELAND, ON 07/10/1898. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF CHARLES AUSTIN & JANE O’NEIL, AT 3, CARLTON AVENUE, VICTOR STREET, HULL (Hull Daily Mail address, 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. FRMERLEY, PRIVATE, 3057 EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE 18TH GLASGOW YEOMANRY. REPORTED MISSING. THEN 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, AT THIS WAR PENSION ADDRESS. SHE WAS AWARDED A WEEKLY WAR PENSION OF 11 SHILLINGS FOR THE LOSS OF HER SON.
HIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS PRINTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 1ST MAY 1919. *
