Joseph Henry Wells
Private S/2374 Depot
7^th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders

Division 26 

Joseph Wells was the  son of Charles and Jane Wells, of 36, The Mount, Reading.  It has not been possible to find background information.

Joseph Wells is buried in a registered war grave, number 16244, and commemorated on the kerbstones that surround it.  His name also appears on the special memorial in the War Plot because his grave had essentially been lost. It is hoped that the CWGC will be able to erect a headstone in the near furtue.

 Joseph Wells died of wounds on 21^st August 1916  He was aged 17.  Newspaper reports stated that he had died in an English hospital and was brought to Reading for his funeral.  It is likely that he received his wounds during the Somme battle but further research is required to confirm this as fact.