JOYCE, Joshua James
| Service Numbers: | 285, 1237, 197 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 January 1902 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 11th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 14 August 1874 |
| Home Town: | Pinjarra, Murray, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Geelong College, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 9 July 1915, aged 40 years |
| Cemetery: |
Lone Pine Cemetery, ANZAC Plot 1, Row H, Grave 4 Headstone Inscription "HE GAVE ALL FOR HIS COUNTRY AND BESTOWED HONOUR ON HIS KIN", Lone Pine Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Geelong College Anglo-South African War Memorial, Geelong College WW1 Roll of Honour, Pinjarra War Memorial, Western Australia State War Memorial |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 285, 2nd Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 1 Jan 1902: | Enlisted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lance Corporal, 1237, 1st Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 197, 11th Infantry Battalion, Place of enlistment - Blackboy Hill, Western Australia | |
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| 2 Nov 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 197, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 24 Jun 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 11th Infantry Battalion, At Gallipoli | |
| 9 Jul 1915: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 197, 11th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 197 awm_unit: 11 Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1915-07-09 | |
| 11 Jul 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 11th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Robert James Joyce and Harriett Joyce nee Bowen of Pinjarrah, WA. Brother of Caleb Joyce of Pinjarrah, WA, Cevilia Joyce, R.S. Joyce, Ralph Joyce and Laura Joyce all from Victoria and Alfred John Joyce and Grace Bowen Joyce both of NZ
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
He served with Tasmanian forces in the Boer War, where he was wounded and returned to Tasmania where he then re-enlisted and served till the end of the Boer War.
Biography contributed by Daryl Jones
JOYCE, Joshua James (1874-1915)
Joshua James Joyce was born in Geelong on 14 August 1874, the seventh born of twelve children of Robert James Joyce and Harriett, nee Bowen he was educated at the College, enrolling there on 30 August 1888.
He volunteered for service with the Tasmanian forces (No. 197), 1 Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse and 2nd Imperial Bushmen Contingent, in the Anglo-South African War, where he was wounded and repatriated to Tasmania. He re-enlisted and returned to that theatre, serving with the 4th Imperial Bushman Contingent till the end of the war. He spent time in Western Australia with his brother, working as a miner, prior to re-enlisting at Pinjarra at the outbreak of the Great War, on 19 August 1914, serving with B Company 11 Battalion, a Western Australian-based unit, and embarked at Fremantle on HMAT A11 Ascanius on 2 November 1914.
He had claimed that on the day of the Landing he was part of a group that penetrated further inland than any others. Lance Corporal Joyce was killed, aged 42, by a sniper on 9 July 1915, while extending a sap at Silt Spur, and buried initially at Victoria Gully Cemetery. These graves were relocated at the end of the war to Lone Pine Cemetery, his grave details being I.H.4. His epitaph reads:
‘HE GAVE ALL FOR HIS COUNTRY
AND BESTOWED HONOUR ON HIS KIN’
Source : The Geelong College - https://gnet.geelongcollege.vic.edu.au/wiki/JOYCE-Joshua-James-1874-1915.ashx?HL=joyce
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