Joseph Hartgrove, private signs up 28th September 1870, aged 19, in the 1st Battalion Rifles. His deployments include:
South Africa – 1879-1880
Gibraltar 1884-1889
He marries Mary Ann Wright (Kidderminster) in Chatham, Kent, in October 1877.
They have the following children:
Joseph Walter 1877 Chatham
Thomas Anthony 1879 Aldershot
Herbert John 1883 Dublin
Sidney Arthur 1888 Dublin
He is promoted to Sergeant in 1885 after getting promoted to Corporal in 1882 and previously Captain in 1881.
He is discharged from the Army in Oct 1891. He has no bad conduct recorded.
On his retirement from the army, he opens a baker’s shop in Henham around 1909.