WOODSTOCK REMEMBERS
SERVICE RECORD
Names
Surname
HAWKINS
HAWKINS
Forname(s)
Joseph
Joseph
Birthplace
Shipton, Oxfordshire 8th July 1883
Family
Parents
Joseph and Charlotte or more likely William and Elizabeth both dead in 1914
Joseph and Charlotte or more likely William and Elizabeth both dead in 1914
Siblings
Rose, Sarah and Harry and step siblings.
Rose, Sarah and Harry and step siblings.
Address(es)
1901 Joseph and his sisters were living with Thomas Bricknell Stepbrother, in Old Woodstock. 9 in the house, three rooms, with Thomas's infant nieces and nephew.
Occupation
General Labourer.
Service
Rank: Private
Number: 8926
Regiment: 2nd Battalion Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
Death
Attested at Oxford. Joseph went to France on the 6th October 1914.
'Listed at the front' April 1915 Reported missing October 1914.
Killed in action 14th October
Burial
Commonwealth War Graves/ Memorial La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial
Total identified casualties
3765
Related Imagery
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Related Files (Click a file to download it)
Researched by: Isabel Wheeler
http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Oxfordshire/Woodstock.html
Ancestry, 'Photos credit of CWGC'. Commonwealth War Grave Commission, Local collection, Woodstock (Parish magazine) Oxfordshire County Museum, Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock,
Local Historian Patricia Crutch.
Ancestry, 'Photos credit of CWGC'. Commonwealth War Grave Commission, Local collection, Woodstock (Parish magazine) Oxfordshire County Museum, Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock,
Local Historian Patricia Crutch.
