BORN HULL 1893. SON OF JAMES ROBERT & HARRIET ANN WALSHAM – 11 WELTON TERRACE, WASSAND STREET, HULL. HE LIVED WITH HIS AUNT MRS MARY ANN PARKIN, AT 43 SCOTT STREET, HULL, , WHOSE THREE SONS, ROBERT, JAMES & SAM PARKIN ALL SERVED WITH THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENTS. THEY ARE PICTURED WITH JOSEPH WALSHAM IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 09/09/1915.
PRIOR TO WAR JOSEPH WALSHAM WORKED AT BRITANIA MILLS FOR THE BRITISH OIL & CAKE MILL. JOE SERVED WITH THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. LANDED IN FRANCE IN OCTOBER 1914. HE DIED AT THE BOULOGNE GENERAL HOSPITAL, OF GUNSHOT WOUNDS TO THE HEAD, RECEIVED ON THE 8TH AUGUST 1915, AGED 21.
HE IS LISTED ON THE NEW GEORGE STREET ROH – (HDM 03/11/1917). HIS WAR PENSION WENT TO HIS AUNT, MARY ANN PARKIN.
HIS PHOTOGRAPH APPEARED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 9TH SEPTEMBER 1915, AND THE HULL TIMES, ON THE 11TH SEPTEMBER 1915. *
