Corporal Joseph Walter Montgomery
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We're trying to find as much information possible about this hero. With the help of several people on forums, facebook and members of The Replacements we've managed to find quite some information about this man, father and soldier. If you can put a face to a story it becomes more personal. We found 2 pictures of Joseph and some documents from sites like Ancestry. We even connected to a person in England who was willing to visit The National Archives.He discovered war journals dated around the time that Joseph Montgomery was killed.

Also there is a book about the Camaronians, pretty rare and expensive. This book contains a map that shows the location of the unit he was in, around the time of his death. The book and map, combined with the war journal combined led us to the most likely conclusion that he died by a schu-mine while clearing a mine field.

Below some pictures of the data we used. 
He is buried in Brunssum War Cemetery in The Netherlands.
We regularly visit his grave, we take care of the headstone and make sure there are flowers at special occasions. 

Article in the newspaper in february 1945:

After some editting the picture looks like this:

His first grave at a temporary cemetery:

His grave in Brussum, photo taken at 10 of november 2024:

With scans out of this book we found this map:

CLICK HERE IF YOU WANT TO READ THE BOOK WITH THE PARTS WE USED

MAP: compared with Google maps 

The wooded area is a 100% match and still present, so we went for a visit and found alot of battle damage and foxholes:


War diaries of his time / day of death:

CLICK HERE IF YOU WANT TO READ THE FULL WAR DIARIES OF THE 6TH CAMERONIANS
 

The Cameronian Regiment

British Commonwealth Military Cemetery Brunssum (NL)
Row IV, Grave  168

Corporal Joseph W. Montgomery of The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) died at age 27 on December 10, 1944, leaving behind his wife, Margaret Miller-Montgomery and his parents James and Susan Montgomery.

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HE WILL BE REMEMBERED