Garvin William Joseph 4460230

Personnel Entry

|Name Garvin William Joseph (“Joe”)
|Army number 4460230
|Rank Private.
|Decorations |Date of birth 23-Aug-16 |Age 81 at the time of his death. |Unit Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry,307 Infantry Training Centre 13/3/40. Posted to the 10th Battalion DLI (13/08/40). Served Iceland (September 1940 to January 1942). Attended Street Fighting course in Birmingham (Dec 2nd – 5th). Embarked for Normandy 9/07/44. Evacuated to Southampton 01/07/44 having been wounded. Posted to 4 ITC, 17/11/44 |Company/Battery No. 4 Infantry Training Unit. |Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet known. |Task or role Dispatch rider (as I recall from talking to my father 50+ years ago) |Joined Brigade 14/08/1940 |Promotions Lance Corporal 12/11/45 |Wounded Received a scalp wound 29/06/44 during an enemy counter attack and was evacuated to Bayeux hospital, spending one night there before being evacuated by sea to Southampton arriving 01/07/1944 |Prisoner of War No. |Died/Killed in action 19/7/1998. |Home address Married Hilda Parker at Church of Christ the King, Warren Farm Road, Kingstanding, Birmingham on 29th July 1944