Lives of the First World War

Major Stewart Hugh Joseph. Unit: Commanding 227th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Death: 18 August 1917 Western Front. Son of Henry Hope Joseph, of 112, Belgrave Rd., London, and the late Helen Christina Joseph (nee Porter). Major Joseph passed with honours at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich in December 1912. He was commissioned to the Royal Engineers in December 1912 and went to France in August 1914. He was mentioned in Despatches on three occasions and received his majority in June 1917. He died of wounds received in Flanders on 18 August 1917. He is buried at the Voormezeele enclosures.