Lance Coporal Joseph Caple

Army Number : 3346

Battalion : 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Derby. Son of John and Lydia Caple, of 369 Green Street, Derby. Husband of Florence Jones (formerly Caple), of 2, Gisborne Street, Derby. He was a labourer for Derby Corporation prior to enlisting 23rd November 1910. He was appointed Lance Corporal 13th June 1911 and went to France 11th November 1914 and was killed in action, 16th September 1916, age 26, in the attack at Guillemont, France during the Battle of the Somme.

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

His brother Private John Caple, 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War.