Joseph Walsh

Private

Service No. 5846

Age 29

Died on 29 October 1914

Coldstream Guards

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Son of Mrs. Bridget Walsh, of Bolton; husband of Florence Ellen Walsh, of 82, Moncrieffe St., Bolton.

Commemorations

Stories

Andrew Smith

I wish I had known you and had a chance to thank you for everything you gave to us who survive you.

Poppy Snozcat

We will remember them. Today, Tomorrow, Forever.

Andrew Smith

To see my great grandfather commemorated at the Menin Gate was a humbling experience. Hundreds of people fell silent as the buglers played.

Born at Vulcan Village in 1885, to an Irish mother and English father, Joseph was the eldest child and became an apprentice electrician at 1...

Andrew Smith