Corporal Joseph O’Connor

Army Number: 21538

Battalion: 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Derby and lived at Chesterfield. Husband of Rose M O’Connor. He enlisted at Staveley, Derbyshire and was killed in action, 14th February 1916, during heavy German shellfire and the explosion of a German mine, prior to the German attack of the front line trenches, near the canal to the southeast of Ypres, Belgium.

Commemorated: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.