 That was Joy's last first-class cricket match.His obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 1967 states that he was the father of Nancy Joy (Sylvia Nancy Wansborough, 1915–1997), who was prominent in women's cricket and wrote books about it.Second lieutenant F. D. H. Joy was recorded by the London Gazette as having joined the Third Battalion of the King's Own Scottish Borderers on 1 October 1914.