Lance Corporal 10656 Joseph Harrold LUDGATE

Lance Corporal 10656 Joseph Harrold Ludgate{gallery}L/Cpl J H Ludgate{/gallery}5th Battalion, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
Killed in action in Railway Wood Trenches, Bellewaerde Ridge, Belgium, France and Flanders, 12th July 1915, aged 21

• Commemorated: Ypres Menin Gate Memorial, Belgium. Panels 37 and 39
  
• Awarded 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals
• Son of Benjamin and Fanny Ludgate
  
• Husband of Florence Ludgate (nee Hudson, now Powell). Married Oct Qtr 1911 at Nuneaton
• NNWFHS Memorial: Bedworth
  

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Lance Corporal Ludgate
• NNWFHS Bedworth War Memorial Page
• Ypres Menin Gate Memorial
• Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

Military, Census and Family History Information

• Born 12 May 1893 and baptised 24 Dec 1893 at Walsgrave-on-Sowe
• Lived at Collycroft, Bedworth [1901]
• Lived at 20 Henry Street, Chilvers Coton [1911]
  
• Employed as a coal miner [1911]
• Enlisted at Aldershot, arrived in France 20 May 1915