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Pte. Joseph Letters
British Army 8th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
from:Glasgow
(d.8th Feb 1918)
Joseph Letters was born in Glasgow of Irish parents in 1886. Joseph married Catherine Cassidy in Glasgow in 1908. By the time Joseph left for the war in 1915, he and Catherine (Kate) had 4 children, Jane (Jeanie), Joseph, James and Elizabeth (Lizzie). After his death in 1918 Kate never sang again and remained a widow till her death in 1970. Lizzie was the only one of their children to stay in Scotland, Jeanie, Joe and James emigrated to the United States of America.