WOODSTOCK REMEMBERS

SERVICE RECORD

Names
Surname
STEPHENS
Forname(s)
Joseph
Birthplace
Graystock, Cumberland
Family
Parents
Samuel and Jane Stephens of Woodstock.
Siblings
Joseph was one of 10 children
Joseph 31, Ernest 16, Mary 14, Henry 11 (1911 Census)
Joseph 11, Warwick 9, William 7, Thomas 4, Samuel 2, John Wilson 7months. (1891 Census)
Frederick 8 (1901 Census)
Address(es)
Joseph was married to Ellen Stephens (nee Smith) of Church Street, Robley, Hants. Son of Samuel and Jane Stephens, of Woodstock, Oxon; husband of Ellen Stephens, of Church St., Ropley, Hants. (CWGC)
Occupation
Domestic groom (1911 Census)
Service

Rank: Corporal

Number: 51195

Regiment: Ist Battalion, Cheshire prev. RASC 085076 Regiment

Death
Enlisted Woolwich, Kent 12th April 1915 Killed in action 21st August 1918 aged 38 at the second Battle of the Somme
Burial
Commonwealth War Grave/Memorial Adanac Military Cemetery, Miraumont Ref: III.D.16 Total identified casualties 1482 Inscription reads, ONLY A STEP REMOVED WE SOON AGAIN SHALL MEET

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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.