Northumberland Fusiliers, 10th Battalion, Service no. 15677
Born: 7th March 1892. Died: 1954
Story
Joseph was the son of Jesse Palfreyman (1857-1928) and Lydia Bettison (1862-1941). He was born in Hunslet, but moved to Kippax, and in 1911 he was a Puller in the pit, living on Well Lane. Joseph enlisted with the Northumberland Fusiliers on 25th August 1915, and served in France. He was wounded in 1916, which was likely to have happened at the Battle of the Somme, and he was discharged from the Army.
After the War, Joseph married Eliza Antcliffe in Kippax on 15th August 1918. Eliza was a Munitions worker at the Barnbow factory. Witnesses at the Wedding were Joseph’s sister Maria, who was also a Munitions worker, and her husband Hottewell Henshaw, who also served in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Joseph and Eliza had a son Harold Palfreyman on 5th May 1923, and he was a Grocer’s assistant living with his parents in 1939 at 10 Moorhouse Avenue, Stanley, Wakefield. Joseph was working as a Colliery Onsetter, and passed away at the age of 62.
Northumberland Fusiliers in a reserve trench at Thiepval, during the Battle of the Somme, September 1916 (below):
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