Somercotes Soldiers WW I (SP 084)
| Photo ID #: | 4066 | |
| Description: | Pictured the Memorial Plaque for Joseph Herbert. The Memorial Plaque was issued after the First World War to the next-of-kin of all British and Empire service personnel who were killed as a result of the war. | |
| Category: | Somercotes-Families | |
| Location: | Somercotes- Soldiers | |
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Killed in action 1st July 1916
Private, 15333, 11th (Service) Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment)
Enlisted at Sheffield.
Buried at the Communal Cemetery Extension, Aveluy, Somme, France
Joseph was born to Joseph (Snr) and Jane Elizabeth Herbert in 1887 at Leabrooks, Derbyshire. Joseph’s father was born in Berkshire, and almost certainly it was employment that would have brought him to the Somercotes area, as by 1911, he was working at the Riddings Ironworks. In 1911, Joseph himself was working as a loader for a local colliery, and lived with his parents at Leabrooks.