Private Joseph Bickley

Army Number: 20499

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

Born and lived at Nottingham, Son of Joseph and Elizabeth Bickley, of 158. Flewitt Street, Nottingham. Husband of Emily Bickley, of 281, Windmill Lane, Nottingham. He was a brickmaker prior to enlisting 5th December 1914 at Nottingham. He went to France 14th July 1915 and was killed in action, 7th July 1916, during the attack on Quadrangle Support near Contalmaison, during the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated : Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Private Joseph Bickley is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Bartholomews Roll of Honour  (Nottinghamshire Archives) Nottingham. 
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Private John Bickley 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.