Joseph Bain enlisted with 4/3rd West Lancs Field Ambulance on 5th Oct 1915. He embarked for France on 11th Oct 1916 with reinforcements and joined No. 1 Territorial Base Depot at Rouen. Attached to 2/1st West Lancs Field Ambulance on 14th Dec 1916. Posted to 1/3rd West Lancs Field Ambulance on 1st Jan 1917.