Private 341354 Joseph Platt
Regiment/Unit: Royal Army Medical Corps - 64th Field Amb.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Age at death: 22
Date of death: 8th of November 1917
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Menin Road South Military Cemetery - III. G. 13.
Family details:
Next-of-Kin from service papers: Mr James Platt (father), 13 Leslie Road, Grange Park, St Helens.
Census details:
1901 - 6 years old Joseph is living at 109 Chapel Street, St Helens with parents James (35), Mary (36) and three siblings: Ernest (8), Ruth (4), Florence E (1). 1911 - Sees 16 years old 'Commercial Clerk' Joseph living at 145 Chapel Street, St Helens with parents James (45), Mary (46) and four siblings: Ernest (18), Ruth (14), Florence Eva (11), Phylis Mary (5).
Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=12]Remembered On the Ormskirk Street Memorial, St Helens.[/url] Age taken from census.
[url=lmem.php?lmem=12]Remembered On the Ormskirk Street Memorial, St Helens.[/url] Age taken from census.
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[pic]tpics/341354_Platt.jpg[/pic][caption]Image courtesy of Jeff Keenan from the Local Press[/caption]
[pic]imgs/WW1_headstones/PlattJ_RAMC.jpg[/pic][caption]The headstone of Private Joseph Platt at Menin Road South Military Cemetery
(Photograph courtesy of Richard Houghton)[/caption]
