Joseph Lilliman

Joseph Lilliman was born in 1882 at Staveley, Derbyshire, the son of Henry and Hannah Lilliman (née Harrison). His father Henry was born in 1857 at Staveley and his mother Hannah Harrison was born in 1858, also at Staveley. They were married on 20th June 1881 and had 21 children, 12 of whom died in infancy or early childhood. Nine of their children were Joseph b1882, William Henry b1883 and John b1886 who were born in Stavely; Robert b1889 Brimington, Violet b1891 Taplow, Thomas b1895 Sheepbridge Derbyshire, Sarah Ann b1898 Brimington, Derbyshire, Annie Mary b1900 Poolsbrook Derbyshire, and Henry b1904 Hodthorpe Derbyshire, Joseph married Alice Hanson (b. 1880) on 3rd April 1899 at Staveley and they had at least six children: Harry b1900, Joseph b1903, Robert b1905, Charles b1908, Hannah b1910 and Eliza b1915. They lived at 20 Newcastle Street, Mansfield Woodhouse, In the 1911 census Joseph, his wife Alice and their four children, Joseph, Robert, Charlie and Hannah, were living at 5 Sherwood Street, Mansfield Woodhouse, with Joseph's brother William Henry, his wife Florence and their children Walter and Frederick. Following Joseph's death in 1915, his widow Alice was awarded a pension of 27 shillings a week payable from 6th March 1916.

Coal miner.

Newcastle Street Mansfield Woodhouse. Enlisted Mansfield.

Private Joseph Lilliman enlisted at Mansfield and landed in Gallipoli on 7th August 1915. He was killed in action 9th August 1915 during the attack at Ismail Oglu Tepe (Chocolate Hill), Gallipoli, Turkey. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey (Panel 150 to 152). Joseph qualified for the 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal.

His brother, C.S.M. Robert Lilliman, 16th Battalion (Chatsworth Rifles) Notts & Derby Regiment, was killed in action on 10th October 1916. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. He was the husband of Lilian Francis Elizabeth Lilliman, of 53 Sherwood Street, Mansfield Woodhouse. Mansfield Reporter, 17 September 1915: 'Mansfield Woodhouse Family's Sacrifice. Five sons of Mr H Lilliman of Blake-street, Mansfield Woodhouse, are serving their country, and one of them, Private Joseph Lilliman, whose home was in Newcastle-street, and who was in the 9th Sherwoods, has made the great sacrifice, having been killed in the Dardanelles last month during a big charge, when he was shot in the mouth. He leaves a family of six children. Another son, Thomas, in the 3/8th Sherwoods, has been wounded in France. Other sons serving are William, in the 2nd Sherwoods, now in France; John of the 3rd Sherwoods; and Robert of the 16th Sherwoods, who is an instructor at Redmires Camp. Another relative is Private C Wharmby, of the 1st Sherwoods, a son-in-law, who was wounded in the head in France by shrapnel, and who has been in a Nottingham hospital for seven months.' (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) Nottingham Evening Post, 30th October 1915: - “Two more men from Mansfield have made the great sacrifice and a third is wounded: Private H. Lilliman, 2nd Sherwood Foresters, 145, Blake-street, Mansfield Woodhouse, killed in France recently by a shell; worked at Langwith Colliery, married and three children; his brother Joseph, in the 9th Sherwoods, was killed in August in the Dardanelles. Private W. Radford, 8th Sherwoods, Peacock-street, Mansfield, killed on October 11th in the great attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt, aged 21. Private H. Brett 8th Sherwoods, 14, Orchard-street, Mansfield, wounded in right thigh at Loos, October 14th by shrapnel, now in Northampton hospital, formerly employed at Sherwood Colliery.” Above courtesy of Jim Grundy and his facebook pages Small Town Great War Hucknall 1914-1918