SMITH, SAMPSON S
Photograph with kind permission from the Uttoxeter Advertiser
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CWGC |
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Uttoxeter Advertiser |
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Parents |
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Where born |
Uttoxeter |
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3 |
When born |
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Address |
Stone Road, Uttoxeter |
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2c |
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Spouse |
Yes |
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2a, 2b, 2c |
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Children |
More than 1 |
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2b |
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2 |
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2c |
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Employment Before Joining up |
Moulder at the Leighton Ironworks |
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2c |
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Where enlisted |
Uttoxeter |
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Yes |
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Regiment |
North Staffordshire (Prince of Wales’s) |
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Yes |
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Unit |
1st/6th Bn. |
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Yes |
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1/6th (T.F.) Bn |
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3 |
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‘B’ Company |
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Rank |
Private |
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2b, 2c |
1, 3 |
Service Number |
2508 |
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Yes |
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1, 3 |
Date of Death |
13 October 1915 |
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1, 3 |
Age at time of death |
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Where Killed or died |
Loos – Hohenzollern Redoubt |
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France/Flanders |
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Yes |
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How he died |
Killed in Action |
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2a, 2b |
1, 3 |
Location of Grave or Memorial |
Loos Memorial for the Missing - Panel 103 and 105. |
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Uttoxeter Town War Memorial (Market Place) |
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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. |