BRONZE MEMORIAL PLAQUE-SECOND LIEUTENANT JOSEPH PETT 2/4TH OX AND BUCKS LIGHT INFANTRY KILLED IN ACTION ON 21 MARCH 1918

Bronze Memorial Plaque,named to: JOSEPH PETT.
Second Lieutenant Joseph Pett,2nd/4th Bn., Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry was killed in action on 21st March, 1918.
The Son of Fanny Elizabeth Pett,of 108,Portway,West Ham,London.He is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial.
Joseph Pett was born on 22nd February 1890.
He attended Winchester Training College,and enlisted on in the Middlesex Regiment 17th September, 1914.He arrived in Egypt 01/09/1915.He was wounded in France "gunshot wound to the chest" on
27th June, 1916
He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry on 24th September, 1917.He was killed in action in the German offensive at the battle of St Quentin on 21st March 1918,his body was never recovered.
A full account of his life and Military career,can be found online at "Winchester Traning College-a roll call of the Fallen,edited by Dee Sayers.
Plaque is about good very fine

Code: 51483