Born: 21 July 1895, Eccleshill
Died: 17 April, 1917
Buried: Godeswaersveld British Cemetery
Address: 309 Moorhead Road, Eccleshill
Parents: Joseph and Hettie, nee Marsden
Spouse:
Siblings: Ethel, Dorothy
Occupation: Eastern Trade Dept, Pornett & Co
Organisations/clubs:
Military
Rank: Second Lieut
Medals/awards:
Rolls of Honour: Eccleshill, Park and St Luke’s
Children:
Regiment: West Riding
Joseph Marsden Hick
Joseph Marsden Hick was born on
the 21st July 1895 and baptised at
St Luke, Eccleshill, the son of
Joseph Clayton and Hettie Hick of
Elsworth House, Moorside,
Eccleshill.
His sister Ethel born in 1898 was
also baptised on the same day.
Joseph’s father was a schoolmaster.
He married Henrietta Marsden in
Bradford in 1891.
In 1901 the family were living at
79 Moorside and their third child
Dorothy had been born in 1899.
Joseph Marsden was educated at St
Luke’s Church School.
By 1911 the family were living at
309 Moorside Road and Joseph
Snr.wais working as an assistant
teacher for the City council. At 15
years of age Joseph was working as
an office boy for Shippers in Cloth
Goods.
Before entering the Army he was
employed in the Eastern Trade
Department of Messrs. Pornett and
Co.
He enlisted in May 1916 in the 7th
Battalion of the Duke of Wellington
West Riding Regiment as Private
61880 and entered France on the
25th of August 1916.
He received his commission in
October 1917 and was promoted to
Second Lieutenant.
He was killed in action during the
Battle of the Lys which lasted from
the 7th to the 29th of April.
Kemmelburg is a height
commanding the area between
Armentieres and Ypres and on the
17th of April the German 4th Army
attacked but were repulsed by the
British.
Joseph lost his life that day. He was
22 years of age.
He is buried in the Godewaersveld
British Cemetery. The cemetery
was begun in July 1917 and from
April to August 1918 during the
German offensive in Flanders field
ambulances and fighting units both
used it for burials.
In the records of the Army effects
Joseph gave authority to “R P
Warley to charge” leaving his
effects to a Mrs Elsie Eley Naylor
who had been born in Bramley in
1890 and married to Ernest Naylor
in 1915.
The word Adieux! with the
exclamation mark is also recorded
suggesting an intimacy. Mrs
Naylor received the sum of
£77.1.1d on the 23rd December
1918 and £22.10.0d on the 19th
December 1919.
.
Researched and written by Jean
Britteon, to whom many thanks
