285835 Pte Joseph Markham, 1st Bn, Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars

285835 Pte Joseph Markham of the 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, died of wounds on the 30th March 1917. He was 18 years old.

Joseph was born in Blackthorn in about 1899. He appears on the 1901 census as a two-year-old living with his parents - Frederick and Annie Markham - his four-year-old sister - Jane Markham - and eight-month-old brother - Frederick Markham. At the time of his enlistment he was living in Bicester but joined up at Oxford. His original number was 2951 which suggests that he originally enlisted - under age - in late 1915. He was certainly serving abroad, however, befeore the Territorial Force was re-numbered and he received his six digit number.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes that Joseph was the son of Frederick and Annie Markham, of Blackthorn, Bicester, Oxon. He is buried in Duisans British Cemetery in Etrun.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission