Name
Samuel Paddick
1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/05/1918
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
234469
Royal Field Artillery
153rd Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
IX. B. 71.
France
Headstone Inscription
"DEARLY LOVED HUSBAND OF BESSIE PADDICK PEACE PERFECT PEACE"
UK & Other Memorials
Broxbourne Town Memorial, St Augustine’s Church Memorial, Broxbourne, Broxbourne C of E Primary School Memorial, Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon, St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon
Pre War
Samuel PADDICK was born in the early part of 1887, in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire son of Walter Paddick a Gardener and Mary Ann Paddick (nee Leach). One of nine children although one died in infancy.
1891 Census records Samuel aged 4, living with his parents, five brothers and sister Annie (14), in Admirals Walk, Hoddesdon, Herts.
Samuel attended Broxbourne C of E Primary School.
1901 Census, Samuel (14) has left school and is working as an Office Boy for a Coal Merchant, living with his parents, brothers Ernest (20), William (17) and Charles (10) still in Admirals Walk, Hoddesdon.
1911 Census Samual (25) is working as a Bookstall Clerk and a Boarder with widow Charlotte Smedmor and her family at, 6 The Cresent, Tottenham, Middx. His parents, brothers William and Charles are still living in Admirals Walk, Hoddesdon.
Samuel married Bessie Frances Benham the daughter of Henry and Florence Benham of Ware, Herts, in late 1912, they went on to have a son Ronald Bertram Paddick born in 1915, his birth was Registered in Barnet, Middx.
Wartime Service
Samuel travelled to the County Town of Hertford to enlisted, posted to the Royal Field Artillery and issued with the service number 234469. On completion of his training, he was sent to France, seeing action on the Western Front, he died on 12th May 1918, of wounds probably in hospital at Boulogne, he had received in action. He is buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery. Grave Ref: IX. B. 71.
Additional Information
Bessie was awarded a grant of £6, and a Widows Pension £1-2s-10d, a week from 18th November 1918.
1921 Census records Bessie and son Ronald, living with her widowed mother Florence Benham, at 35 Lord Street, Hoddesdon, Herts.
Samuel is also commemorated on the family headstone in Hoddesdon Cemetery. His part of the inscription reads:
ALSO IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY HUSBAND DRIVER S. PADDICK R.F.A. DIED OF WOUNDS
INTERRED BOULOGNE CEMETERY MAY 12TH 1918 AGED 31 YEARS
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Richard Barber, Malcolm Lennox
