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Rflmn. Joseph Henry Cosford
British Army 9th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:74 Faroe Road, Fulham, London
(d.21st March 1918)
Our granddad, Joseph Cosford, volunteered to join the 9th (Service) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. The word 'service' meant a battalion made up of volunteers to the war effort ie Kitcheners Army which, I understand, landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer as part of the 42nd Brigade in the 14th (Light) Division in May 1915 for service on the Western Front, and saw action in the same battles as the 7th and 8th battalions.
We know that he died at the Battle of St Quentin on 21st March 1918 at the age of 42. He is remembered at Pozieres Memorial, The Somme, France. He left a wife and five children Edie, Reginald, Frederick (our father), May, and Frank.