SAMPSON, HARRY

Photograph with kind permission from the Uttoxeter Advertiser

 

 

Source

CWGC

SDGW

Uttoxeter Advertiser

Other

Parents

 Mr. & Mrs. Sampson

 

 

 

1

Position in the family Brother of Councillor Sampson     3a  

Where born

 

 

 

 

 

When born

 

 

 

 

 

Address

Colin Street or Terrace , Uttoxeter(parents)

 

 

 31,3c

 1

Uttoxeter

 

Yes

 

 

Spouse

 

 

 

 

 

Children

 

 

 

 

 

Employment Before Joining up

Fitter at the Leighton Ironworks  

 

3a

 

Mould Maker, Messrs. Bamford’s Leighton Ironworks, Uttoxeter,Staffordshire

 

 

 

 

When Enlisted

Before August 1916

 

 

 

6

Where enlisted

Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire

 

Yes

 

 1

Regiment

North Staffordshire (Prince of Wales’s)

Yes

Yes

 3a,3c

 1

Unit

1st Bn.

Yes

Yes

 

 

Rank

Private

Yes

Yes

 3a, 3b, 3c

 1

Service Number

40009

Yes

Yes

   
Former Service 2928, Pte, North Staffordshire Regiment    

 

 

Date of Death

4 August 1917

 

 

 

 

6 August 1917

Yes

Yes

 

 

Age at time of death

 Killed in action

 

 Yes

 

 

Where Killed or died

Ypres salient - Hulluch

 

 

3c

 

France/Flanders

 

Yes

 

 

How he died

 

 

 

 

 

Location of Grave or Memorial

Aeroplane Cemetery

Grave III. A. 45.

Yes

 

 

 

Awards

 

 

 

 

 

Before the war Harry was employed as a fitter in the Leighton Ironworks of Messrs. Bamford’s Company in Uttoxeter.

Harry’s first service was as 2928, Private in the North Staffordshire Regiment[1]. At some time later his number changed to 40009 in the same regiment[1].

The Staffordshire Soldiers of the Great War website[1] states that he was serving with the Royal Engineers and was wounded in the shoulder and ear on the 7th June 1917. This is not consistent with the information given by the majority of other sources and therefore needs to be viewed with suspicion.

News of his death was brought to his parents in a letter from Second Lieutenant E. T. Pearson of the North Staffordshire Regiment, and an extract was published in the Uttoxeter Advertiser[1, 3a]. He said the following:

 “I am very sorry to have to tell you of the death of your son, Pte. H. Sampson, who was killed in action on August 4. He was engaged with a working party at the time, and fell at the post of duty like a true British soldier.

He was buried in a cemetery behind the lines and a cross erected to his memory.

I offer you my deepest sympathy in your great loss, but I hope that in the midst of your sorrow you will feel pride in your gallant son’s noble self-sacrifice for his Country’s cause. He was very popular with his comrades, and we all feel his loss keenly.

I trust the Lord will be with you and comfort you in your sorrow”.

He had served in France and Belgium for 12 months prior to his death[1].

 

This memorial notice was placed in the Uttoxeter Advertiser on 31st August 1918 to mark the first anniversary of his death

In Loving Memory of Pte. Harry Sampson, North Staffs. Regt., killed in action at Hulloch, August 4, 1917. – Ever remembered by Father, Mother, Brothers and Sisters. – Colin Street, Uttoxeter

 

Harry is buried in Aeroplane Cemetery in the Ypres sector of Belgium[2]

 

His brother Edwin John Sampson and his nephews Edwin John and Charles Sampson also served[1].