Joseph Crompton Salisbury

First Name: 
Joseph
Middle Name: 
Crompton
Last Name: 
Salisbury
Date of Birth: 
Friday, December 13, 1889
Mother's Name: 
Martha Salisbury nee Crompton
Father's Name: 
James Salisbury
Date Enlisted: 
Thursday, January 21, 1915
Rank at Enlistment: 
Private
Rank at Discharge: 
Private
Unit: 
55th Battalion
Company: 
C
Service: 
Infantry
Awards: 
1914/1915 Star
British War Medal
Victory Medal
Date of Death: 
Friday, May 1, 1959
Place of Death: 
Bulli, N.S.W.
Details: 

Joseph Salisbury (Service No 2018) was born in Bulli.  In 1913 he married Florence Parker at Woonona, N.S.W.

At enlistment Joseph was 26 years old, worked as a coal miner, and lived at Woonona. 

He embarked from Sydney on HMAT A55 Kyarra with 5th Reinforcements, 3rd Battalion, on 13th April 1915.  Joseph arrived on Gallipoli on 9th July 1915 and was reported as missing after the Lone Pine battle.  However he had been evacuated on 25th July 1915 and admitted to hospital in Gibralter on 6th August, seriously ill with enteric fever.

On 3rd February 1916 he was transferred to C Company, 55th Battalion, and after serving in Egypt arrived in France on 29th June 1916.  On 20th July 1916 he was wounded in action at Fromelles and evacuated to hospital in England for treatment of shrapnel wounds to his side and face.

He was diagnosed as being deaf and returned to Australia in May 1917, then discharged medically unfit on 14th August 1917.

Joseph and Florence went on to have 8 children.

Joseph died in Bulli in 1959and is commemorated on the Woonona Public School Roll of Honour and on the Bulli-Woonona War Memorial.

Sources: 
NAA: B2455, SALISBURY JOSEPH CROMPTON

Images

Joseph Salisbury back row, last on right