Button Joseph Cpl 4449933
From 70 Brigade
Personnel Entry
Name Button Joseph
Army number 4449933
Rank Corporal.
Decorations
Date of birth
Age
Unit Joined The Durham Light Infantry, no enlistment date yet known. Posted ? 8th Battalion DLI. Posted 11th Battalion DLI, possibly 1/9/1939. Served with the B.E.F. in France. Taken Prisoner of War - notified 17/8/1940, and reported in the Auckland Chronicle of 29/8/1940. Discharged under King's Regulations 1940 Para 390 (xvi) 6/11/1945 as unfit for further service.
Company/Battery
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role
Joined Brigade
Promotions Corporal
Wounded
Prisoner of War Yes - Camp 344, P.o.W. Number 96355.
Died/Killed in action
Home address
Source table 11DLI
