213286 Spr. Joseph Dunmill British Army 94th Field Company Royal Engineers from:London (d.20th Sep 1917) Joseph Dunmill was my grandfather. He married my grandmother Miriam Louise Pawsey in St. John's Church, Waterloo Road, London in 1903 when they were both 19. He had five children with my grandmother, William b.1904, Rosetta b.1905, Beatrice b.1908, Joseph b.1911, and my mother Violet b.1912.
My mother could remember her father and said he looked like the film star Ronald Coleman. Joseph (son) died of diphtheria in 1915. My grandmother still spoke sadly of his death when she was in her nineties.
After the death of Joseph (her husband) I understand she took in washing and ironing to earn a living. In November 1918 she married a widower with four children and had a further two children, Albert,(Ossie) a paratrooper who was killed at Arnhem in WW2 and a much loved Aunt Doris.
Joseph and Miriam's family were close, with many shared celebrations such as weddings. My grandmother always lived near us and we saw her practically every day until she died, in her own bed in 1980, aged ninety six.
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