Sergeant Joseph Batty MM & Bar
4698 2nd East Lancashire Regiment
Killed in Action 17th February 1918
Lived at 8 Penny Street
Commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France
Burnley Express 3/4/1915 - 3/4/1915 - 7/10/1916 - 10/1/1917 - 2/3/1918 - 29/6/1918

Josephs wife Elizabeth Burnley Express 11/6/1924

Mrs Eliza Batty
No 8 Penny St
Burnley
Lancs

Dear wife

Just try and
make the best of
it now we got on
ship at Southampton
we do not know were
going tell Annie not
to forget her dady if tell my
-----chance to write mother
-----get it as soon as possible