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  • King's Lynn
  • Norfolk, England
  • Woking, Surrey
  • Son of John Henry and Pleasance Elizabeth Sampson (nee Grimes), of "Cintra," Uppleby Rd., Parkstone, Dorset; three brothers, two sisters; eldest brother Ernest Henry was a trooper in the 20th Hussars and died from typhoid in 1904;
  • Poole Secondary School, Poole, Dorset
  • Bank clerk at the Capital and Counties Bank, Woking.

Military service

  • 16 February 1917, Woking
  • 35964
  • Private
  • 1st Bn. East Surrey Regiment
  • Sent to Belgium October 1917.

Death

  • 6 November, Polderhoek Chateau
  • Died of gunshot wounds, smashed left thigh in n°3 Canadian CCS
  • 19
  • XXI - GG - 18A

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