YORKSHIRE-born Corporal Joe Chaplin came from a family of dam workers.

As a teenager in Derbyshire he lived in a home with 13 other people, including eight members of his own family.

A labourer with the public water works, he was probably joined by siblings and parents in building the Kinder Dam in the early years of the 20th century.

Then as war approached, he was living in the Sladen Valley near Stanbury while helping build the Lower Laithe Reservoir.

Construction began in 1911 and was completed in 1925, but soon after the outbreak of the First World War, Joe enlisted with the Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment.

Two years later, in July 1916, he was wounded and received shellshock, and by November returned to France.

In summer of the following year he was wounded a second time, marrying Barnoldswick woman Edith Mitchell while recuperating back home in the UK.

Joe survived the war, leaving the Army in 1919 and with Edith having two sons named Joe and Dennis.

In 1939, Joe senior was living in Morecambe while working as a mechanical excavator engineer, his family remaining in Keighley.

Joe died in 1968 in Lancaster at the age of 74.