Army Number : 202409

Battalion : 2/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Wadsworth, Yorkshire. Son of Abraham and Elizabeth Ann Sutcliffe, of 8, Arthur Street, Barnoldswick, Lancashire. He was a cotton weaver prior to enlisting 13th January 1916 at Barnoldswick. He went to France 26th February 1916 ans was killed in action, 4th May 1917, aged 19, in the attack on the German positions at Malakoff and Cologne Farms, France.

Buried/Commemorated : Bellicourt British Cemetery, France. Plot 1. Row I. Grave 3.

Private Joseph Sutcliffe is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
Barnoldswick War Memorial, Barnoldswick, Lancashire.

His brothers, Gunner Alfred Sutcliffe, Royal Field Artillery, Private Ellis Sutcliffe, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment ), and Private Fred Sutcliffe, Leicestershire Regiment, also fell in the Great War.