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Sgt. Joseph Widdowson

British Army 1st Battalioin Northumberland Fusiliers

from:Nottingham

(d.19th May 1915)

Joseph Widdowson enlisted around 1902 and probably entered the Reserve around 1910 or 11. He re-enlisted at Newark and entered theatre on 2nd of November 1914 serving in Y Company, 1st Northumberland Fusiliers.

The battalion had been heavily engaged in October around Herlies and at Messines on 1st of November and were at that time fighting at Herenthage Chateau. On 16th of June 1915, he took part in the attack on Bellewaarde Ridge as part of an attempt by 9th Brigade to break through the German lines and reach Bellewaarde Lake. The War Diary lists him as missing, but he was actually wounded and a prisoner of war.

Joseph succumbed to his wounds on the 19th of June 1915 and was buried in the German Military Cemetery at Ledeghem. After the war his body was reinterred in the Harlebeke New British Cemetery.



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