The Newcastle Daily Chronicle 04/01/1916 reports that Pte. Joyce was killed by a shell a few days after he had been recommended for reward for a remarkable piece of shooting. He shot a German officer who was laying a communication wire and then with another shot severed the wire.
The same newspaper also reports on the suicide of his widow, Mary Ellen Joyce, who had been suffering from depression since the news of her husband’s death. They had lived at 23½ Cambrian Street. Jarrow.
