BORN WILLERBY 1898. SON OF JAMES ROBERT & ANNIE BRADLEY, MAIN STREET, WILLERBY ABOVE. THIRD OF SEVEN CHILDREN. HS FATHER WAS FOREMAN, OF WHITING MILLS, WILLERBY. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 05/11/1916, AGED 18. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, ANNIE MARWOOD. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL. HIS NAME IS INSCRIBED ON THE KIRKELLA WAR MEMORIAL AT ST ANDREWS’ CHURCH AND ON THE HULL GARDENER SOCIETY MEMORIAL, AT HOLY TRINITY CHURCH.
First name:
JOSEPH
Regiment:
Military Number:
30855
Rank:
Private
Date Died
05/11/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
18
