Name
Joseph Thomas Gilmore (*1)
1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/09/1918
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
41274
Lincolnshire Regiment
1st/5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ROISEL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
I. I. 20.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Memorial Plaque, Memorial Hall, Bovingdon, Wooburn Green War Memorial, Bucks
Pre War
Joseph Thomas Gilmore was born in 1890 in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire the eldest son of Thomas Batchelor Gilmore and Eliza Ann Hall and one of four children. His father was listed as a blacksmith in Bovingdon in the 1890 Kelly's Directory.
On the 1891 Census the family were living at Rickmansworth, where his father was working as a Smith and Engineer. By 1901 they had moved to Cores End, Wooburn Green, Buckinghamshire and remained there in 1911, when Joseph was working as an Engineer.
He married Lillian Beatrice Levey in 1915 in Wycombe, Buckinghamshire and they lived at "Craylands," Seer Green, Beaconsfield, Bucks. They had a son, Kenneth Joseph, on 31 January 1917.
Wartime Service
Joseph enlisted at Marlow, Bucks and initially served with the 27th Territorial Reserve Battalion (Reg. No. 9516), later transferring to the 267023, A.S.C. (M.T.) and then the 1st/5th Lincolnshire Regiment.
He was killed in action on 22 September 1918, aged 28, and is buried in Roisel Communal Cemetery Extension, France, having been 'concentrated' there from a previous location at the end of the war.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £8 10s and pay owing of £15 12s 7d. She also received a pension of £1 0s 5d a week for herself and her son. His body found at map ref. 62c R 13.C.2.6. and reburied on 18 August 1919. *1 Named as Pte. T E Gilmore on original records, but regiment and date of death correct.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Malcolm Lennox, Dick West, www.buckinghamshireremembers.org.uk,
