Joseph Reginald Wesson
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Joseph Reginald Wesson was born in 1883 he was the son of Joseph Wesson a publican and Phyllis Wesson née Lees of Langley Mill Derbyshire formerly of Eastwood Nottinghamshire. Joseph was born in 1844 at Nottingham, Phyllis Lees was born in 1845 at Eastwood, they were married in 1867 at Nottingham and went on to have 7 children, sadly two died in infancy or early childhood In 1911 his parents are living at The Draycott Hotel, Draycott, Derbyshire, Joseph is 67 yrs and a publican, he is living with his wife Phyllis 66 yrs and children, Ada, Ephraim and Joseph Reginald, 28 yrs, His brother Frederick was killed in action 1/7/1916. Wesson's father ran a hairdressing business in Eastwood.
Private Joseph Reginald Wesson enlisted at Derby in the Spring of 1915 and initially served with the service number 4618 in the Sherwood Foresters Regiment. He was hospitalised with Trench Foot after service in France . He later transferred to the Oxfordshire and Buckingham Regiment and was killed in action on 15th September 1916 and having no known memorial his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
His brother Lance Corporal Frederick Wesson enlisted in Nottingham on 14th October 1914, he gave his age as 34 yrs and 3 months ( he was born in 1869 and therefore 44 yrs old) he served with the 1/7th battalion Sherwood Foresters Regiment. He embarked from Southampton on 28th June 1915 landing the following day at Rouen. He was Killed in action, 1st July 1916, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.
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