BORN HULL 1897. SON OF LOUIS FARBSTEIN (1858-1939) & GERTRUDE SCOTT FORBES (1868-1948), OF 42, ALBANY STREET, SPRING BANK, HULL AND 8, STOREY STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). FROM A JEWISH FAMILY. HIS GRANDFATHER WAS BORN IN WARSAW, POLAND, AND HAD ARRIVED IN HULL FROM HAMBURG, IN 1846. HIS FATHER WAS A CHIROPODIST. THE FAMILY LIVED WITH FOUR SERVANTS. JOEL WAS THE ELDER BROTHER, OF HUGH SCOTT FARBSTEIN (1899-1976).
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SENT TO FRANCE, ON 05/08/1916. COMMISSIONED INTO THE ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY. WOUNDED ON 01/04/1917. DIED LATER SAME DAY, AGED 19.
BURIED AT ACHIET-LE-GRAND COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, IN FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION READS, “A NOBLE SOUL”.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON HULL’S HYMERS COLLEGE MEMORIAL, AND ON THE HESSLE ROLL OF HONOUR, ALL SAINTS PARISH CHURCH. UNMARRIED. JOEL LEFT £267 IN HIS WILL TO HIS FATHER, LOUIS AT MENTONE HOUSE, WEST-HILL, HESSLE.
HIS NAME IS ALSO RECORDED ON THE WESTERN SYNAGOGUE, LINNAEUS STREET, HULL/ HOW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN IN THE MIDST OF BATTLE/ IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE/ IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918/ (Names)/ NATION SHALL NOT LIFT UP SWORD AGAINST NATION, NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANYMORE.
