Pte 11328 Joseph Bentley Briggs 2nd KORL

[mmm45]

Evening
Can someone please look up on Fold 3 Pensions any info held on 11328 JOSEPH BRIGGS
I have medal index card/roll and POW info i am trying to tie him to Hartshead West Yorkshire as i have a POW postcard to a Mrs Joseph Smith Littlethorpe Hartshead West Yorks

Thank You

[Ladyhawk]

Can someone please look up on Fold 3 Pensions any info held on 11328 JOSEPH BRIGGS

I have medal index card/roll and POW info i am trying to tie him to Hartshead West Yorkshire
as i have a POW postcard to a Mrs Joseph Smith Littlethorpe Hartshead West Yorks

Thank You

Sorry can’t help with fold3 details but there is a married Elizabeth SMITH nee Briggs with her husband Joseph and children living Littlethorpe Hartstead in 1901 &1911
1901c Piece:4114 Folio:16 Page Number:   24

1881  Piece:4470 Folio:48 Page Number:   21
Bentley Briggs   45
Elizabeth Briggs   39
Elizabeth Briggs 22 Clayton, Yorkshire
Henry Briggs   20
Joseph Bentley Briggs 3 Bradford
Jeremiah Briggs   

Elizabeth Briggs age 22
7 May 1881    Clayton, St John, Yorkshire,
Father:   Bentley Briggs manager
Spouse:   Joseph Smith

Joseph Bentley Briggs age 27 vetinary surgeon
1 Feb 1905    Elland, St Mary, Yorkshire
Father:   Bentley Briggs gentleman
Spouse:   Mary Gallon

Joseph Bentley Briggs
Birth Date:   12 Oct 1877
Baptism 18 Nov 1877 Bradford, St James, Yorkshire
Father:   Bentley Briggs Mother:   Elizabeth

[middlesbrough]

POW Records

Joseph Bentley BRIGGS, K.O.R. Lance, Pte, 11328.
Camp A, Stammlager, Soltan.
Captured Ypres, Belgium 8.5.15
Left thigh bullet wound
Born Bradford 12.10.69
Home place Morecambe.
Next of kin Mrs Mary Briggs, 76 Regents Road, Morecambe, Lancashire.

[middlesbrough]

Sorry, just reread your post and realised you already have that record.

[cliffkinch]

Nothing on the Fold3 record that points to Yorkshire. All entries are in Lancashire, including NOK address, marriage, and children's (5) birthplaces

His wife's maiden name was Andrews
Cliff

[mmm45]

Thanks everyone for your help.Much appreciated

Ady

[mmm45]

Just to add to this I have now located previous service in Boer War as 1468 Trooper 3rd Australian Commonwealth Horse as a Vet.
He went to Australia in about 1900 returned to Yorkshire married in 1905 and lived in Lancashire until Great War

Ady