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L/Cpl. Joseph Revely
British Army 2nd Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Jarrow
(d.6th Nov 1914)
Joseph Revely enlisted at Jarrow and served in the 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry. He died on the 6th November 1914 and is remembered at Monkton Memorial, he is buried in Netley Military Cemetery.
Netley Military Cemetery is in Hampshire on the site of the old Military Hospital so he must have died there.
His medal card records the award of the 1914 Star, War and Victory medals and noted that he died presumably from wounds or illness.
Joseph born in Jarrow 1894 son of Edmund Revely and the late Elizabeth Revely nee Skime). In the 1911 census the family lived at 17 Frederick Street, Jarrow with Edmund (69) widower, a joiner in the shipyard, his sons, Henry(33) single, a general labourer, William E(23)single, crane driver in steel works and Edmund, age 13, at school. There are two younger daughters, Margaret (10) and Linda (7).