homepage War Memorial Casualties Fund Contact WW1 WW2 McCarthy,Robert Emmet Brazier, Frank Leonard Daniels, James Alfred Finch, Robert Walter Gardiner, Arthur Frank Gardiner, Stanley Percival Knight, Ernest Knight, Frederick William Lemon, Harry Lodge, Arthur John Lodge, Frederick George Parish, Samuel Charles Prentice, Joseph Sewell, Willie Taylor, Frank Joseph Whybro, Walter George Burbidge, Ronald Vincent Brunning, George Edward Field, Thomas Victor Hazel, Walter King, Leslie John Lanzer, Reginald Lodge, Ernest Arthur Mills, Hurman James Page, Leonard Arthur Saltmarsh, Christopher Edward Swallow, Fred Tatum, Gerald Henry Tingle, Howard Grantley Welsh, Brian Norris Wood, Terence Francis, Charles Herbert Jackson, Arthur Edmund Lodge, Nellie Owers, Nellie Elizabeth Saveall, Elijah George Scotchman, William Henry Smith, Alice Louisa Smith, George William Wyatt, Denis Whybro, Walter George Eve, John Other Conflicts King, Albert Richard Slater, Adam Edward Prentice, JosephSergeant 7673 2nd Bn., Essex RegimentDied of wounds on 29th May 1915 aged 29Joseph was born in Springfield, son of Charles and Sarah. In 1914 he was a greenkeeper at Galleywood Golf Club. Galleywood FolkJoseph Prentice HomepageWar MemorialCasualtiesWW1FundContact Joseph enlisted on the outbreak of war and was in France by August 1914.In May 1915 his battalion was in the Battle of Bellewarde near the end of the 2nd Battle of Ypres where they were exposed to heavy artillery and gas attacks and received heavy losses. Joseph died of his wounds and was awarded a citation for bravery.He is buried at Etaples Military Cemetery, south of Boulogne.Joseph was the first known Galleywood casualty and he left a wife Alice nee Tarling and 3 children. visitor count BACK
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