Name
Joseph Batchelor
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/10/1914
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
2484
3rd (Prince of Wales's Own) Dragoon Guards
Attd Life Guards
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 3.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, St James' Church Memorial, Watford Fields, Bushey Baptist Church Memorial, Bushey
Pre War
Son of Eliza (formerly BATCHELOR, nee NEWLAND) WOODSTOCK of Watford, and the late Joseph BATCHELOR; husband of Agnes Gertrude (nee BLYTHE) BATCHELOR of North Kensington, London.
His parents married 17 August 1884 at Christ Church, Brondesbury, London. Joseph died 1900 in Watford aged 38, and was buried 5 July in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford. Eliza remarried 1905 in the Watford district to William Henry WOODSTOCK. She died 6 September 1940 in Watford aged 80, and was buried 10 September in Vicarage Road Cemetery; William died 16 June 1943 in Watford aged 75, and was buried 19 June, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Joseph was born 1888 in Chelsea, London [not Kilburn, London], and married 1913 in the Watford district; they had one child. He resided in the Harrow Road. Agnes never remarried, and died 1975 in the Hastings, Sussex, district, aged 85.
On the 1891 Census, aged 2 he lived in Chelsea, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1901 Census, an ironmonger aged 12, he lived in Oxhey, Herts, with his widowed mother and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, a Private in the 3rd Dragoon Guards aged 24, he was stationed at Wellington Lines, Aldershot, Hants.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in London; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914 Star medals, his qualifying date being 6 October 1914, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Joseph’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing. Recorded as serving only in the Life Guards in the Borough Roll of Honour. His brother Henry died 31 October 1914 and also features on Watford Borough Roll of Honour.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
