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Joseph Lidster Kitching, born 1897, was one of three brothers all born in Lund, sons of John and his wife Sarah Alice Kitching (nee Lidster). John was born in Beverley but, orphaned at the age of six; he was raised by an uncle in Lund, he married Sarah and four of their five children were born in Lund before moving to Beverley.
Joseph and his two older brothers, Charles Henry and Tom, all served during the war.
Joseph was a Gunner in the Royal Field Artillery, he sent Christmas greetings on a postcard from Italy in 1918, where he was serving with the 12th Battery of the RFA, in the 7th Division.
All three brothers survived the war and Joseph was awarded the British War and Victory medals.
In 1922 he married Thirza Jane Wilson, daughter of Ransom Wilson, a farm bailiff, and his wife Martha. Joseph was a postman, their son, Geoffrey was born in 1927. The 1939 Register shows Joseph, a postman driver, and Thirza living in Norwood Grove, Beverley, close to his parents. Thirza died in 1979 and Joseph died in Beverley in 1985.
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