SMITH, SAMPSON S

Photograph with kind permission from the Uttoxeter Advertiser

 

 

Source

CWGC

SDGW

Uttoxeter Advertiser

Other

Parents

 

 

 

 

 

Where born

Uttoxeter

 

Yes

 

3

When born

 

 

 

 

 

Address

Stone Road, Uttoxeter

 

 

2c

 

Spouse

Yes

 

 

2a, 2b, 2c

 

Children

More than 1

 

 

2b

 

2

 

 

2c

 

Employment Before Joining up

Moulder at the Leighton Ironworks

 

 

2c

 

Where enlisted

Uttoxeter

 

Yes

 

3

Regiment

North Staffordshire (Prince of Wales’s)

Yes

Yes

 

3

Unit

1st/6th Bn.

Yes

Yes

 

 

1/6th (T.F.) Bn

 

 

 

3

‘B’ Company

 

 

 

1

Rank

Private

Yes

Yes

2b, 2c

1, 3

Service Number

2508

Yes

Yes

 

1, 3

Date of Death

13 October 1915

Yes

Yes

2a

1, 3

Age at time of death

 

 

 

 

 

Where Killed or died

Loos – Hohenzollern Redoubt

 

 

2b

3

France/Flanders

 

Yes

 

 

How he died

Killed in Action

 

Yes

2a, 2b

1, 3

Location of Grave or Memorial

Loos Memorial for the Missing - Panel 103 and 105.

Yes

 

 

 

Uttoxeter Town War Memorial (Market Place)

 

 

 

5

Awards

 

 

 

 

 

He joined the local company of Territorials after the war was declared[2c] and left Uttoxeter with other recruits for “G” Company, 1st/6th battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment, on the 29th of August 1914[3]. This makes him one of the ‘Old Contemptibles’.

Along with many other men from Uttoxeter, he died at the Hohenzollern Redoubt at Loos, leaving a wife and 2 children.

At the end of October 1915 the Uttoxeter Advertiser[2c] reported that Mrs. Smith had received a letter from Quartermaster Sergeant Copping, of the Grenadier Guards. In his letter he had said that Private Smith was killed in action, fighting for his King and Country like other British heroes. He also said that he was laid to rest with some more of his comrades.

Sampson was mentioned in the memorial service that was held for Oswald Bamford.

This memorial notice was posted in the Uttoxeter Advertiser[2a] in October 1916 to mark the first anniversary of is death

SMITH. – In Loving Memory of Sampson Smith, who fell in action on October 13, 1915.

He rests in the tomb of a warrior’s grave;

For his King and his Country he fought;

In heart he was kind, in action was brave;

He has gone to the Saviour he sought.

- From his loving Wife and Sisters.

 

This followed a year later[2b] to commemorate the second anniversary of his death

SMITH. – In Loving Memory of Pte. Sampson Smith, killed in action at Hohenzollern Redoubt, October 13, 1915.

Some day we hope to meet him,

Some day – we know not when –

To clasp his hand in that better land,

Never to part again.

- From his loving Wife, Children and Sisters.