Served in the 2/6th and 10th Battalions

Joseph Ollerenshaw was born in 1895 in Bradwell in the High Peak. In the 1911 Census he is recored as living at Stumperlowe Grange Farm in Fulwood and was a farm worker.

Joseph enlisted into the 3/6th Battalion in December 1915 and was subsequently transferred to the 2/6th Battalion. His 4-digit Territorial number was 4685.

Joseph was serving with the 2/6th Battalion, 178th Brigade, 59th Division when it was sent to Ireland in response to the Easter Rising in 1916.

“Dear father & mother just a few lines to you hoping that you are all quite well as it leaves me very well. We are somewhere in Ireland and we are having some very fine weather now. From your son Joseph”

Joseph proceeded to France with 59th Division in early Spring 1917.

At some point Joseph transferred to the 10th Battalion, which could have been when the 2/6th Battalion was disbanded, in May 1918 or he may have been wounded and following recovery posted to the 10th Battalion ?

Joseph was discharged in March 1919 and received an Army pension due to ‘synovitis of the left angle’ that was attributed to active service.

Joseph Ollerenshaw married Elsie Pye in Stockport, Cheshire in April 1922 when he was 26 years old – see here – they had one child during their marriage. He died in 1960 in Stockport, Cheshire at the age of 65.