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Pte. Joseph Firth
British Army 8th Bn East Lancashire Regiment
from:2a Scarr Street, Bacup, Lancashire
(d.22nd April 1917)
Joseph Firth is my paternal mother's brother, my great uncle born in Bacup, Lancashire in 1898. I know very little about him other than that he enlisted without his mother's knowledge and he died in WW1. His elder brother, William Roberts, re-enlisted to search for him and prior to his departure to Salonika he absconded and was missing for more than 21 days when he was declared a deserter. He had previously earned the 1914 Star which was rescinded because of this situation.
I have visited the National Archives in Kew and obtained a copy of the War Diary for the 8th Btn of his unit in the month that he died.