Notts Free Press, 18th August 1916
STALEY J.
Joseph Staley
Private 11573
7th Bn., Leicestershire Regiment
Notts Free Press, 18th August 1916
Joseph Staley died on Friday 14th July 1916, Age 23, and is remembered on the THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France.
He was born c1893 at Newhall, Derbyshire, the son of Levi and Mary Hannah Staley. Levi Staley was a Coal Miner, who married Mary Hannah Sparrow in December quarter 1886. On the 1901 census the family were living at High Street, Newhall, but by the time of Joseph's death they resided at 31 Tudor Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.
His elder brother, Daniel Staley, is also listed on the War Memorial.
Notts Free Press, 18th August 1916
From
‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 –
The Leicestershire Regiment’
STALEY
Joseph. Born Newhall, Derbyshire, enlisted
Mansfield (resides Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts). 7th Bn.,
Leicestershire Regt., Private 11573,
Killed in Action, France & Flanders, 14th July 1916.
Research by Heather Faulkes
