4958 Pte Joseph Nissen, 4th Bn, London Regt

4958 Private Joseph Nissen of the 4th (City of London) Battalion (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regiment, died in England on the 11th June 1916. He was born in Stepney, was living at Stratford and enlisted at Shaftesbury Street, north London. His number dates to June 1915.

Joseph's real name was Nissenblatt and he was Jewish by faith. He proceeded overseas with the 4th Londons in October 1915, landing in France on the 27th of that month. His service papers no longer survive and so it's an assumption that he was returned to England as a result of sickness or wounds. He almost certainly died as a result of sickness.

Joseph was entitled to the 1914-15 Star and the British war and Victory medals. His sister was recorded as the recipient of these and her details, as recorded on the 13th October 1920, were Mrs Rachel Kutchinsky, 161 Vicarage Lane, Stratford, E15. Her brother is buried in the Plashet Jewish Cemetery in East Ham.

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