Name
Joseph Garrison
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
649903
Labour Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Joseph Garrison was born in the spring of 1873 at Warwick. He was one of six sons and four daughters born to Thomas and Jane Garrison. At the time of the 1881 and 1891 Census the family lived at 60 Parker Street, Warwick, and Thomas worked as a General Labourer. By 1901 Thomas had moved to Abbots Langley, and was employed as an Asylum Attendant, and was living at the Leavesden Asylum.
On 14th June 1906 he married Harriett Batson at Leavesden, and in the 1911 Census the couple and their newly born daughter lived at 22 Marlin Square, Abbots Langley. Joseph was still employed at the Asylum.
It is not certain whether Joseph volunteered or was conscripted, however he was not included in the Leavesden Asylum Roll of Honour, which listed those Asylum staff that were serving, and was printed in the Hertfordshire Advertiser newspaper in October 1914. The October 1918 edition of the Leavesden Parish Records showed that he had “Joined H.M Forces”.
The Abbots Langley Parish Magazine noted that a second daughter is born to Joseph and Harriett in November 1914.
Joseph was first recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in July 1918, quite late in the War. His name was recorded, but not his unit. Joseph Garrison’s Medal Roll indicated that he initially served with a battalion of the Essex Regiment before being transferred to the Labour Corps. The December 1918 edition of the Parish Magazine noted that he was serving with the 108th Prisoner of War Company. By the end of the War forty-seven Prisoner of War Labour Companies were attached to the Labour Corps, and one of their tasks was to guard and supervise German POW’s.
Joseph Garrison survived the War.
Additional Information
Formerly 57509, Essex Regiment
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
