BORN HULL 1895. THIRD SON OF JAMES HENRY & CLARA ANN JOYS, OF 12 WELLSTED STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). FORMERLY, EMPLOYED AT MESSRS, LINSLEYS, MYTON GATE, BREWERS, WHERE HE WAS VERY POPULAR.
HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, IN SEPTEMBER 1914. TRANSFERRED TO 11TH THE EAST LANCASHIRE REGIMENT. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 06/08/1916, AGED 21. HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, CHARLES SAMPSON JOYS, 10TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 04/06/1916. ANOTHER, BROTHER, TROOPER, SYDNEY JOYS, WAS SERVING IN EGYPT. ANOTHER BROTHER, HAD ALREADY BEEN DISCHRGED FROM THE ARMY.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 25/08/1916. *
BOTH ARE RECORDED AS KILLED, ON HULL’S WELLSTED STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 25 September 1916)
First name:
JAMES WILLIAM
Military Number:
27292
Rank:
Private
Date Died
06/08/1916
Place died:
Merville Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France
Age:
21
12, WELLSTED STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
