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Pte. Joseph Bowes Wilson
British Army 10th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment
from:Jarrow
(d.25th May 1918)
Joseph Bowes Wilson, Private 46891, enlisted in Jarrow and served in the 10th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment. He was later transferred to the 49th Company, Labour Corps (No.29282)and died age 38 on the 25th May 1918. He is remembered at St. Paul's Church and is buried in Querrieu Cemetery. It is not known at what date Joseph was transferred to the Labour Corps and where he would have been serving at the time of his death however the Cemetery is in the Somme area near most of the areas involved in the final Somme offensive. His medal card records the award of the War and Victory Medals and requests effects form 118a in respect of his death (21st Feb 1923).
Joseph was born in Leamside, Durham 1880 son of William and Mary Wilson of Boldon Colliery. He was married to Mary Agnes Wilson nee Miller of 40 York Street, Jarrow. In the 1911 census they are living at this address with Joseph(31) an assistant ironmonger and Mary(28) his wife of 7 years having 3 children, James 6, Richard 4 and John is 1 year old.
