Blackswell Joseph

BLACKWELL, JOSEPH

		Source
		CWGC	SDGW	Uttoxeter Advertiser	Other
Parents	Mr. & Mrs. C. Blackwell			3b	4
Parents	Cope and Lucy Blackwell				1
Where born	Uttoxeter, Staffordshire		Yes		4
When born	Abt 1897				7
Address	21, New Street, Uttoxeter (parents)			3a	4
Address	New Street, Uttoxeter (parents)			3b
Spouse
Children
Employment Before Joining up	He started work for S. B. Bamford, then Mrs. Bourke at Wootton Hall			3b
Employment Before Joining up	Finally joined the staff at the Uttoxeter Post Office.			3b	4
When he left for war	Early August 1914			3d
When he left for war	6th August 1914				4
Where Enlisted	Uttoxeter, Staffordshire		Yes		4
Regiment	North Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s)	Yes	Yes		4
Unit	1st/6th Bn	Yes	Yes
	1/6th (T.F.) Bn				4
	“B” Company				2
Rank	Private	Yes	Yes	3a 3b	4
Service Number	1823	Yes	Yes		2 4
Date of Death	13 October 1915	Yes	Yes	3a	2 4
Age at time of death	18			3b
Where Killed or died	Loos - Hohenzollern Redoubt			3a 3c	4
How he died	Killed in action		Yes		4
How he died	Missing			3b
Location of Grave or Memorial	Loos Memorial, Panel 103 to 105	Yes
Awards

Joseph was a son of Cope and Lucy Blackwell of 21 New Street, Uttoxeter. They lost two sons during the war: Joseph and his brother Ralph (see later).

In addition, two other sons (Bert and Cope) served their country and survived the war.

21 New Street, where the family lived.

Joseph does not appear on the 1901 Census, despite the fact that he was born about 1897.

In civilian life he first worked for Samuel Brassington Bamford and then Mrs. Bourke at Wootton Hall. Finally he joined the staff at the Uttoxeter Post Office.

He was a member of the Uttoxeter Territorials before the war and left the town with a contingent of other Uttoxeter Territorials on the 6th of August 1914. He served as a Private, Number 1823, in the 1st/6th North Staffordshire Regiment.

He was reported missing after the charge on the Hohenzollern Redoubt at Loos on the 13th October 1915 and was still missing at the end of December 1915.

At the time of his death he was 18 years old - a year under-age for overseas service. Hence, by rights, should not even have been there.

Joseph has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial.