Joseph Allport was working as a store man
and 22 years-old when he enlisted 24 July 1916. Although born in Parramatta Joseph’s uncle, who lived at 4 Charles Street, Erskinville, was listed as being his next of kin. He was made a Corporal on 6 April 1917 and was marched in to Etapples, France a month later. On the 9 October 1917 he was badly wounded in the thigh and died of wounds 27 October 1917. He was buried at Etapples by Reverend B J Murdock.
Research and Collection Services, City of Parramatta, Parramatta Heritage Centre, 2017
References
The biographical information has been researched and compiled from the following resources:
- Australian War Memorial – https://www.awm.gov.au/
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission – http://www.cwgc.org/
- National Archives of Australia – http://www.naa.gov.au/
- National Library of Australia Trove Digitised Newspapers Database – http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper
- Parramatta and District soldiers who fought in the great war, 1914-1919. (1920). Parramatta, N.S.W. : The Cumberland Argus Ltd. – https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9iAn5sxT0i8ZHgyZjR2UHRxVUU/edit
- The National Archives (UK) – http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
- University of New South Wales Canberra The AIF Project – https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/index.html