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L/Cpl. Joseph Weale
British Army 12th Btn. Cheshire Regiment
from:Plymyard Cottage, Bromborough, Cheshire
Joseph Weale was born in March 1889 in Shipton, Shropshire. He moved to Bromborough, Cheshire in the early 1900s.
He enlisted on 1st of September 1914 in Chester. He was appointed Lance Corporal 15th of July 1915 sent to France 6th of September 1915. He was badly wounded by shrapnel on 14th of May 1918 and discharged 10th of June 1919 and died in 1948.
He lost his younger brother Thomas Weale on 5th of September 1916 who was serving with the Shropshire Yeomanry who were attached to the Cheshires at the time, he is remembered on the Cenotaph in Eastham.