BORN HULL 1/11/1887. SON OF SEPTIMUS & MARY JANE BILTON. MARRIED, BUT LIVED WITH WIDOWED MOTHER A 73 ARUNDLE STREET, HULL. EDUCATED AT FISH STREET COUNCIL SCHOOL. EX NER. ENLISTED 1903. SERVED FOR ELEVEN YEARS AND THEN BECAME MASTER OF THE YORK WORKHOUSE. CALLED UP AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR. KILLED IN ACTION ON 16/9/1914. HIS BROTHER ALSO SERVED IN ARMY. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HDM, ON 06/10/1914. HE IS ALSO LISTED IN THE DE RUVIGNY’S ROLL OF HONOUR WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
HE IS BURIED AT VAILLY BRITISH CEMETERY, AISNE, FRANCE.
First name:
JOSEPH
Regiment:
Military Number:
6030
Rank:
Private
Date Died
16/09/1914
Place died:
VAILLY BRITISH CEMETERY, AISNE, FRANCE
Age:
27
