When Ethel Hedwig Joss was born on 6 October 1911, in Romford, Essex, England, United Kingdom, her father, Hans Traugott Joss, was 29 and her mother, Hedwig Ernestine Hartmann, was 28. She died in March 2003, in Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 91.
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Outbreak of World War I. UK enters hostilities against Germany. Grueling trench warfare in Belgium and France.
After Germany declared war Russia, Britain entered The Great War and declared war on Germany on August 4, 1914. The war ended on November 11, 1918, as Germany signed an armistice that brought fighting to a halt.
Britain entered the Second World War as war was declared on Germany on September 3, 1939. World War II came to an end after the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which killed 140,000 people. Less than a week later, the Japanese surrendered and the war officially ended on August 15, 1945.
Some characteristic forenames: German Erwin, Fritz, Kurt, Otto.
Scottish and German: from an Old French personal name derived from Breton Iodoc, Latinized as Jodocus (see Joyce ).
English: possibly from a Middle English pet form of Joseph , but this is not confirmed by medieval evidence.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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