Joseph Turnbull's story as told by my uncle, Joseph Turnbull Graham...
Joseph Turnbull & Frank Graham were best friends from Birtley, County Durham and enlisted together in June 1918. After training together they were posted to the front line. During thr Battle of the Seller, part of the 100 Days Offensive which brought to an end the Great War, Joseph was fatally wounded & he died on 23rd October 1918, just 19 days before the Armistice.
After the war, my grandad started courting one of Joseph's sisters, then decided it was another sister whom he loved & they married in December 1925. My dad was born in 1928 & was given his father's name if Frank as was the tradition, along with Arthur after a friend from the Tank Corp. When a second son was born a couple of years later, he was named Joseph Turnbull Graham after my grandad's best friend - his name truly lives forever more.
Mark Graham