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Surname: METCALFE
Forename(s): Joseph
Place of Birth: New Houses, near Middlesmoor, Yorkshire
Service No: 148903
Rank: Gunner
Regiment / Corps / Service: Royal Field Artillery
Battalion / Unit: Details, 49th Division
Division: 49th (West Riding) Division
Age: 27
Date of Death: 1917-02-27
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: E. 2.
CWGC Cemetery: ST. POL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: BURNSALL, YORKSHIRE
Local War Memorial: MIDDLESMOOR, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Joseph Metcalfe was the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Metcalfe, née Ingleby. Joseph, senior, was born at Studfold, Stean and Elizabeth at Dallowgill, Yorkshire.
1901 Carlton, Coverdale, Yorkshire: Carlton Town - Joseph Metcalf, aged 9 years, born New House, Yorkshire, son of Elizabeth Metcalf (married). [Elizabeth's husband, Joseph, was boarding at Middlesmoor, Yorkshire.]
1911 West Scrafton, Yorkshire Census: Joseph Metcalfe, aged 19 years, born New Houses, Nidderdale, Yorkshire. [Joseph was employed by Thomas Horner, Farmer. In 1911 Joseph's parents and his sister, Elizabeth, were living at Lofthouse, Yorkshire.]
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Gnr Joseph Metcalfe, 148903, R.F.A.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Gnr Joseph Metcalfe, 148903, R.F.A. Dead 27.2.17.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Gnr Joseph Metcalfe, 148903, R.F.A. Date and Place of Death: 27.2.17. No.12 St[ationary]. Hos., St. Pol. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Father - Joseph. £5 10s. 8d.
A short biography of Joseph is included in: ‘Swaledale & Wharfedale Remembered – Aspects of Dales’ life through peace and war’ by Keith Taylor (2006).
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
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Gunner Joseph METCALFE
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Royal Field Artillery
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 49th (West Riding) Division
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22 February 1918
METCALFE – In ever loving memory of our dear and only son, Gunner Joseph Metcalfe, R.F.A., who died at 12 Stationary Hospital, France, on February 27th, 1917, aged 25 years.
God’s will be done, we faintly cry,
Our longing hearts may break;
We deemed him ours, but he was Thine,
And He who gives may take.
Sadly missed by his loving Father and Mother, Lofthouse, Pateley Bridge.
METCALFE – In loving memory of Gunner Joseph Metcalfe, R.F.A., who died in France on February 27th, 1917, aged 25 years.
He has gone, and to us he will never return,
To his voice we shall listen no more;
But the love that we bore him will dwell in each breast
Till we meet him again in the realm of the blest.
From his sorrowing Sisters and Lizzie.
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