Trooper1854
The Brit Pack
For nearly fifteen years we have been researching our family history.
We recently found a cousin of my wife's grandfather.
His name was William Joseph Jones.
He was in the North Staffordshire Regiment in WWI and was killed in action sometime in October 1918.
From regimental diaries, we know he was fighting around the St Quentin Canal in October 1918.
We know that he must be somwhere in this photograph:
When we visited the Staffordshire Regiment museum, they have a wall sized version of this picture and we spent ages staring at it knowing Joseph is there looking back at us.
Joseph has no known grave and is commemorated on the memorial at the Vis En Artois cemetry in France.
We visited Vis En Artois recently and found his name on the memorial, he is the 7th down:
From the research we have done, it appears that the two cousins may not have known about each other, Sharon's grandfather was in the Royal Engineers and served in various places along the Western Front, mainly in Flanders, but from the regimental histories, it appears that at times they may have been very near each other.
We recently found a cousin of my wife's grandfather.
His name was William Joseph Jones.
He was in the North Staffordshire Regiment in WWI and was killed in action sometime in October 1918.
From regimental diaries, we know he was fighting around the St Quentin Canal in October 1918.
We know that he must be somwhere in this photograph:
When we visited the Staffordshire Regiment museum, they have a wall sized version of this picture and we spent ages staring at it knowing Joseph is there looking back at us.
Joseph has no known grave and is commemorated on the memorial at the Vis En Artois cemetry in France.
We visited Vis En Artois recently and found his name on the memorial, he is the 7th down:
From the research we have done, it appears that the two cousins may not have known about each other, Sharon's grandfather was in the Royal Engineers and served in various places along the Western Front, mainly in Flanders, but from the regimental histories, it appears that at times they may have been very near each other.
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