Private Joseph Oswin

Army Number:20813

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

Born at Ilkeston, Derbyshire and lived in Nottingham. Son of James and Mary Ellen Oswin, 42, Trent Lane, Nottingham. Husband of Mary Oswin, 3, Albion Place, Newington Street, Sneinton, Nottingham. He was a general labourer (asphalter) prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He went to France on 28th July 1915 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 south-east of Ypres, Belgium.

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

His brothers Private John Oswin, 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment and Private William Oswin, 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.