Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of John and Sarah Elizabeth Joyce. He enlisted in the Leicestershire Regiment but in October 1916 was transferred to the Yorkshire Regiment where he was undergoing training at Oakland Park near Chelmsford. On the 18th February 1917 he was suddenly taken ill and subsequently died in hospital of cerebral spinal meningitis. His body was conveyed to Morcott where he was buried in the new burial ground. Several members of the Rutland Volunteer Regiment were in attendance. He was a member of the Baptist denomination and a Sunday School teacher, of a quiet and lovable disposition, and much respected by everybody in his native village.