BORN HULL 1889. ENLISTED HULL. KNOWN AS ‘JOEL’. SON OF JOHN JAMES BETTS AND MARY JACKMAN, 10 MILLER TERRACE, SPYVEE STREET AND 58 CLIFTON TERRACE, DAY STREET, WELLINGTON LANE, HULL. HUSBAND OF LILY BETTS & ONE SON LIVED AT 1 HANNAH’S TERRACE, SPYVEE STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS WITH HIS BROTHER WILLIAM SERVED WITH THE 13TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 20/07/1916, AGED 27. HIS PHOTO APPEARED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL. THE FAMILY’S ADDRESS WAS REPORTED AS 58 CLIFTON TERRACE, DAY STREET, WELLINGTON LANE, HULL
HIS OLDER BROTHER, PRIVATE, WILLIAM BETTS, 13TH EYR WAS KILLED ON THE 13TH NOVEMBER 1916, AGED 31.
First name:
JOSEPH WILLIAM
Regiment:
Military Number:
13/1047
Rank:
Private
Date Died
20/07/1916
Place died:
Laventie Military Cemetery, La Gorgue, Nord, France
Age:
27
1 HANNAH'S TERRACE, SPYVEE STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
