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Personal data

• Name NEEDHAM
• Initials J
• First name JOSEPH
• Place of birth Audley
• Country Staffordshire, England
• Family Son of James Needham and Caroline (nee Griffin); his mother died soon after his birth; his father re-married with Sarah Ann Manock;his elder brother Arthur was a driver with the 11th Signals Coy of the Royal Engineers and died 9 March 1915 while still in England;
• Extra info Husband of Elizabeth Needham, of 208, Bury Rd., Rochdale; one son, John;

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 7 September 1914, Burslem
• Service number 13698
• Rank Serjeant
• Regiment and unit 8th Bn. North Staffordshire Regiment
• Division - Brigade 56th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 19th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career to France on 17 July 1915; Croix de Guerre award on the 2nd of October 1916; promoted corporal 18 December 1916; promoted sergeant 10 October 1917

Death

• Wounded Died of wounds in n°2 Canadian CCS;
• Date of death 11 April 1918
• Died at the age of 25
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVI - H - 11A

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