Notes
The Roll lists his address as 29 Duke Street. The Roll also records his brother Robert.
(CWGC records that Corporal Joseph Oxby, regimental number 7193, died aged 28 on 9/5/1915 serving in the 1st Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial in France. The Medal Rolls record that Joseph went to France on 27/8/1914. Soldiers Died in the Great War record that he was a native of Canwick, Lincolnshire who enlisted in Northampton. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his siblings were his legatees. Joseph Oxby's birth had been registered in Lincoln District in 1887; he was born in Canwick, the son of Robert and Susan Oxby. His father died in 1890. On the 1891 census the four-year-old Joseph was living with his widowed mother Susan at 1 School Lane, Canwick. (His mother died a few weeks later). On the 1901 census Joseph was living with his brother Tom in Queen's Road, Old Fletton, Peterborough. On the 1911 census he was serving in Malta with the 2nd Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment).