Name
Joseph Thomas Winfield
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/02/1919
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
39213
Northamptonshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RICKMANSWORTH (CHORLEYWOOD ROAD) CEMETERY
E. 5. 5A.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth UDC Memorial,
St Peter's C of E Primary School, Mill End
Pre War
Joseph Thomas Winfield was born in 1898, son of Joseph and Mary Winfield and the eldest of their 5 children.
In 1901 the family were living in Uxbridge Road, Mill End, his father being a labourer at a gravel pit. In 1911 they were still living at Uxbridge Road, but his father was now employed as a jobbing gardener.
Joseph attended St Peter’s School in Mill End. His attestation papers in August 1916 state that his father had died and that he was living with his mother at 198 Uxbridge Road.
Wartime Service
Joseph Winfield enlisted on December 12 1915 in Bedford in the Bedfordshire Regiment. His attestation papers describe him as being 5ft 3 in tall, weighing 117lb, physical development ‘fair’ and employed as a labourer. He was in France between 25/3/1917 and 23/3/1918. He was wounded in the left forearm and transferred to the Dover Garrison Military Hospital between 30/3/1918 and 10/5/1918. He was then transferred to the Labour Corps as he was not fit for active service. He died of influenza and pneumonia in the 1st Eastern General Hospital in Cambridge whilst still in service.
The 1st Eastern General Hospital was in operation between 1914 and 1919. It was built on the site of King’s and Clare Colleges cricket fields and is now the site of the University library. Over
70 000 casualties were treated here between 1914 and 1919.
Acknowledgments
Pat Hamilton
Malcolm Lennox
