Name
Joseph Daws
1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/10/1917
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
266948
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BELGIAN BATTERY CORNER CEMETERY
II. B. 13.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Letchworth Town Memorial, Central Methodist Church Memorial, Letchworth, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Joseph Daws was born in Leicester in 1887 to Thomas Daws, shoe rivetter, and Clara, hosiery winder, nee Clarke.
On the 1881 Census the family of parents, William (born 1879, died 1881), Mary Ann (born 1881) together with Caroline (born 1860, waitress, sister to Thomas) and Alfred (born 1862, brother to Thomas) were living at 24, Gravel Road, Leicester.
On the 1891 Census the family of parents, Thomas, Mary A, Thomas (born 1883), Clara (born 1885) and Joseph and Nellie (born 1890) were living at 24, Gravel Street, Leicester.
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, Mary A, Thomas, Clara, Joseph, Nellie, Ada (born 1892) and Ethel (born 1896) were living at 52, Kensington Street, Leicester.
Joseph married Alice Maud Lyne in 1910 in Hitchin District
On the 1911 Census Joseph and Alice were living at 84, Ridge Road, Letchworth, Herts. Joseph was a print warehouseman. His family of parents (Thomas was a shoe laster), Thomas (boot & shoe finisher), Nellie and Ethel (circular knitters in factory) and Ada (counter hand warehouse) living at 52, Kensington Street, Leicester.
Wartime Service
Joseph enlisted as a Territorial Soldier in the Hertfordshire Regiment as Private 5841 sometime in early 1916. The Hertfordshire Regiment, a Single Battalion force (1st/1st), were part of 118 Brigade, 39th Division and joined them the field following his training. Joseph was renumbered as 266948 in the general renumbering of the Territorial Force in 1917. In 1917 the Battalion were to take part in the Battles of 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele) at the Battle of Pilkem (31 Jul), Langemarck (16-18 Aug), Menin Road ridge (26 Sep-3 Oct) and 2nd Battle of Passchendaele (26 Oct-1 Nov). Joseph was reported as killed in action on 5 Oct 1917 during period of Trench duty between set piece battles.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £8 10s and arrears of £1 17s 8d was paid to his widow. His widow later re-married as Alice Maud Stanimirovitch), of 74, Milosha Velikog Ulica, Belgrade, Serbia.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Dan Hill, Janet Capstick, Jonty Wild
