Name
Joseph Buck
1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/08/1918
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
37561
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 28 and 29.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Langleybury Village Memorial, Not on the Boxmoor memorials, Not on the Hemel Hempstead memorials
Pre War
Joseph Buck was born in Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, in 1898, the son of William and Sarah Annie Buck and one of six children.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Harefield, Middlesex where his father was working as a labourer at the cement works.
At the time of enlistment they were living at North Grove Lock, Hunton Bridge, Kings Langley, Herts (Grand Union Canal).
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bedford and served with the 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment.
He was killed in action on 7 August 1918, age 20 when the Battalion were in trenches from the Bray-Corbie Road to the River Somme and were involved in attack to recover the original British Front Line. He was one of 21 other ranks recorded as missing in the war diary.
He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Pozieres memorial, France.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £6 and pay owing of £2 0s 10d. His mother received a pension of 5 shillings a week.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, www. dacorumheritage.org.uk, www.hemelheroes.com.
