WORLD WAR I
Bingham War Memorial
Service Record
| 26121 | Private Joseph Dunsmore | B company 1st/ 7th Bn Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment) | Born 1894 Bingham |
| Killed in action on 21/03/1918, the same day as Sydney Cuddy, and probably the same general action. | No known grave Commemorated on Arras Memorial |
Bay 7. |
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| 1918 Battalion War Diary |
He was in the trenches on the Somme at Noreujl on 21st March
when after 7 days of it being very quiet, the Germans commenced bombarding
the front line trenches at 4.56 am and continued for a further 5 hours.
Communication with HQ was lost. The enemy broke through on both flanks and surrounded the Sherwood Foresters. They held out against this attack and delayed the enemy sufficiently long for reinforcements to be brought up. Losses in this engagement were very heavy and included in the casualties was Joseph Dunmore. |
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| AR/Ancestry | Enlisted in Mansfield | ||
| Ancestry Service Record | An unusually full set of notes has survived to show that Joseph seems to have been subjected to a wide range of experiences during his service. He was sent for trench warfare training at a mock up training site in Yorkshire. He had spells in hospital both in France and England to deal with medical problems (a bout of conjunctivitis and an abscess) and the results of being wounded twice. He was evacuated twice back to England on board hospital ships. | ||
| CWGC | Son of Joseph and Annie Dunsmore, of Spring Gardens, Bingham, Notts. | ||
| Grantham Journal | 19 July 1918 the Grantham Journal carried this report of his death after being reported as missing. | ||
| Register of Effects | On 8th November 1919 Joseph’s father received a single payment of £30.9s.6d. for back pay (£26.12s.5d) and War Gratuity (£16.10s.0d) combined. | ||
Medal record card
Parent’s names do not tally CWGC v Census but this may be about customary
name for “Annie”
Family history etc
| 26121 | Private Joseph Dunsmore | ||
| 1894 | Born 27/05/1894 Bingham | ||
| Census 1891 |
Father Joseph, wife and first two children living in Union Street, Bingham | Platelayer | |
| Census 1901 |
Living in a four room house in Long Acre with: Father: Joseph, b 1862 Woolsthorpe, Lincs Mother: Mary Ellen, b 1864 Bottesford, Leics Siblings: George, b 1887 Nottingham Gertrude, b 1890 Nottingham William, b 1892 Bingham Frank, b 1893 Susan, b 1895 Richard, b 1897 |
Foreman Platelayer on Railways page boy |
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| Census 1911 |
Living in a four room house in Long Acre with: Father: Joseph Mother: Mary Ellen Brother: Richard Note: Frank live-in with farmer and family in South Muskham |
Working as “Lad porter”, Great Northern Railway Platelayer, GNR Farm Servant |
George not in census;
served with the 5th Engineers(USA) Richard served in WW1 Frank served with 2nd Siege Battn in WW1 |
| AVL 1918 | Named on the Absent Voters list as living in Spring Gardens, line above Richard, his brother who served and survived. | ||
| Bingham Cemetery/ Free BMD |
Mary Ellen, his mother, “wife of Joseph”, died
9th April 1915 and is buried in Bingham cemetery. Her headstone also remembers
Joseph “killed in action in France 21 March 1918” Joseph’s father is also buried there, died 1st February 1946 aged 83, alongside Ann, “wife of Joseph” died 5th March 1982 aged 89. Joseph married Ann Coy in Melton Mowbray district in December 1916. |
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| AR/Ancestry | Enlisted in Mansfield 18th May 1915 | ||