CORDELL, JOSEPH. Private. 2270. 1st/4th. Territorial Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment.
Born in Marshchapel, he enlisted at Alford, giving his place of residence as Well.
The 1901 census records Joseph aged 5, brother William, living with their parents Lizzie Ann and William Whitworth Cordell, an agricultural labourer, of South Elkington.
The 1911 census records joseph aged 16, single, a horseman on a farm, boarding with Jane and Charles Cussons, a shepherd, of Well.
Entitled to the British War and Victory Medals. Joseph Cordell was killed in action on October 13th. 1915, aged 18, when the Battalion attacked the Hohenzollern Redoubt, and lies in and unknown grave.
His soldiers’ effects of £7-11-4d and war gratuity of £4-10s was paid to his father William Cordell.
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