BORN SELBY, 1895. SON OF ROBERT AND EMMA LANGTON, OF 48 UPPER UNION STREET, HULL. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND THREE SISTER.
HE MARRIED MARY ANN CARTER, AT HULL, IN 1908. THEY HAD FOUR CHILDREN AND LIVED AT 5 UNION PLACE, OSBOURNE STREET, HULL.
HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A COAL MRECHANT’S LABOURER.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, AT THE SOMME, ON 25/09/1916, AGED 33.HE IS COMMEMORATED TO THE MISSING ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, FRANCE. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFTTO HIS WIDOW
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 30TH OCTOBER 1916, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH.*
HIS BROTHER, SGT. ROBERT LANGTON, EYR, LIVED AT 3 MONTROS AVENUE, STANLEY STREET, HULL
First name:
JOSEPH
Regiment:
Military Number:
7668
Rank:
Private
Date Died
25/09/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
33
