Joe Baxter (c.1900-1918)

Huddersfield and District Roll of Honour

This page is part of an ongoing project to commemorate and research the lives of those who appear on war memorials and rolls of honour in the local area, or who served in the military.

Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922

The following extract is from Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922 (2014) by J. Margaret Stansfield:

BAXTER, JOE. Rifleman. No 63774. 8th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment. Born Linthwaite. Son of George Henry and Sarah Ann Baxter, 124 Radcliffe Road, Crimble, Slaithwaite. Killed in action near Rheims, France, 27.7.1918, aged 18 years. Buried in COURMAS BRITISH CEMETERY. Grave location:- Plot 2, Row G, Grave 10.

ROH:- Linthwaite War Memorial; St. James' Church, Slaithwaite; Slaithwaite War Memorial.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

• Rifleman JOE BAXTER
• regiment: West Yorkshire Regiment
• died: Sunday, July 28, 1918
• age: 18 years
• record ID: 611355

Links

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• Imperial War Museums: Lives of the First World War

rank: Rifleman

8th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment

service number: 63774