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Personal data

• Name PETCH
• Initials JWT
• First name JOSEPH WILLIAM THORPE
• Place of birth Slingsby
• Country Yorkshire, England
• Last residence Helmsley, Yorkshire
• Family Son of Robert and Mary Harriet Petch (formerly Ellerby), mother died in 1895, father in 1917; a sister, Violet; lived with his aunt Ann Gladwin at East Riding Bank;
  Husband of Evelyn Gladys Rickeit (formerly Petch), of 21, Depot St., Greenwich, New York, U.S.A.; they married in the summer of 1917;

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 4 August 1914, Malton, Yorkshire
• Service number 21636
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 1st/5th Bn. York and Lancaster Regiment
• Division - Brigade 148th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 49th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career To France May 1915

Death

• Type of wounds Died of wounds
• Date of death 10 March 1918
• Died at the age of 23
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVII - EE - 7

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