Northumberland Fusiliers Badge
Morpeth Herald 16/11/1917 carries a brief obituary:
ROLL OF HONOUR
POTTER.- Died of wounds reeived in action, Oct. 27th, 1917, Pte. Joseph Daniel Potter (No.290827), N.F., the dearly beloved husband of Annie Potter, 18 Doctor Terrace, Bedlington.-Deeply mourned by his loving wife and two sons, father and mother-in-law, Mr and Mrs Lamb.
Morpeth Herald 30/11/1917 carries the following:
Private Joseph Potter, aged 32, of 18 Doctor Terrace, Bedlington, who worked at Doctor Pit prior to joining up, has been killed in action.
Derek Johnstone has provided the following:
Joseph Daniel Potter was born in Edgefield, Norfolk, about 1883. In 1891 Joseph was living at Ramsgate Street, Edgefield, North Norfolk with his widowed mother when he was 8 years old and still at school. Also in the house were siblings James, 16; Mary, 6 and Sidney, aged 4. In 1901, Joseph, aged 18, was a Private in the 2nd Battalion Norfolk Regiment and still living at the family house at Holt, Edgefield, Norfolk.
By 1911, now aged 27, he had moved to Northumberland probably to gain employment in the coal mines. He was single at this time and was living with the Lamb family as a lodger at 18, Doctor Terrace, Bedlington. Later in 1911 Joseph married Annie Lamb, a daughter of the head of the household, which was registered at the Morpeth Registry Office, when Annie would be about 16 years old. Joseph and Annie had a child, Daniel Thomas Potter, who was born in 1912.
Military records show Joseph enlisted at Alnwick, Northumberland into the East Yorkshire Regiment in August 1914 but was discharged due to a problem with his knees in November of the same year. After this he joined up again, this time with the Northumberland Fusiliers and died from his wounds in 1917. Joseph, who had brown eyes and hair, was awarded the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal & Victory Medal.
Joseph Daniel Potter is remembered in Bedlington on B15.02, B15.03, B15.06 and B15.26 page 45 and in the Battalion History
