Année de naissance: 1889

Lieu de naissance: Hull, Kingston upon Hull, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni

Profession: Opérateur de presse à égrener le coton

Pays: Angleterre, Royaume-Uni

Force armée: British Expeditionary Force

Rang: Lance Corporal

Numéro de service: 64221

Incorporation date: 10/12/1915

Incorporation nom de lieu: Hull, Kingston upon Hull, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni

Unités:  —  Machine Gun Corps, 214th Coy.  (Dernière unité connue)

Date de décès: 30/10/1917

Lieu de décès: Helles House, Poelkapelle, Belgique

Cause du décès: Killed in action (K.I.A.)

Âge: 28

British War Medal Médaille

Victory Medal Médaille

Lance Corporal Joseph Samuel Longworth served in the Machine Gun Corps 214th Company, part of the 173rd (3/1st London) Brigade, of the 58th (2/1st London) Division. The Division participated in the Third Battle of Ypres and attacked on the 30th of October 1917. It advanced with the 174th Brigade on Noble’s Farm and a line of pillboxes Southeast of it. Noble’s Farm was a German strongpoint just Northeast of the village of Poelkapelle. The attack was supported by the 198th Machine Gun Company, the Machine Gun Company of the 173rd Brigade and a Battery of eight guns of the 214th Machine Gun Company.
At zero hour 5.50 a.m. the troops moved forward behind a barrage. The going was tough, as the constant shelling had turned the terrain in a bog. The bad state of the ground combined with heavy German machine gun fire, made the situation dire. Most troops consequently failed to reach their objectives except for the 2/6th London Battalion. They took Noble’s Farm, which had been utterly destroyed by the artillery barrage and also captured the pillboxes Southeast of the German strongpoint. Two machine guns at Helles House were knocked out by German shell fire the during this operation.
The 198th Machine Gun Company suffered a total of six casualties (killed, wounded or missing). The Company was relieved on the following day. The 214th Machine Gun Company also suffered casualties while supporting the attack. Three men of the Company were killed in action and five men were wounded. It’s highly likely that the men of the 214th Machine Gun Company became casualties, due to German shell fire on their gun positions (20.V.15.b.30.25 and 20.V.15.d.50.90) at Helles House.
Lance Corporal Joseph Samuel Longworth’s remains were never recovered. And he’s remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial.

Henry Alfred Longworth  Brother

198 Machine Gun Company , (The National Archives, KEW (TNA), WO 95/3006/4 ). https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14303 Autre référence

214 Machine Gun Company , (The National Archives, KEW (TNA), WO 95/3001/11 ). https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14303 Autre référence

McCarthy C., The Third Ypres Passchendaele. The Day-by-Day Account, (London, Arms & Armour Press, 1995), pg. 133. Sources utilisées

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/833152

Namenlijst (In Flanders Fields Museum) https://namenlijst.org/publicsearch/#/person/_id=24720281-b63d-4449-882f-9b4ca9de437b

Lives of the First World War (Imperial War Museum) https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/5419616