Name
Samuel Saggs
1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/08/1920
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
260170
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BISHOP'S STORTFORD OLD CEMETERY
B. 14. 27.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
PEACE PERFECT PEACE
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials
Pre War
Samuel Saggs was born in Hampstead, Middx in 1890 to Frederick and Emily Saggs, where the family lived at 51 Fleet Road. By the 1911 Census the family had moved to 80 Barrells Down, Bishop's Stortford, Herts and Samuel was working as a General Labourer in the building trade.
Wartime Service
His date of entry into the Theatre of War is noted as 6 November 1914. He also served in Herts Regt, 1st Btn, (Reg. No. 2165) and latterly in the Royal Defence Corps (Reg. No. 927149).
He died in Ware, Herts from "disease" on 5 August 1920 and is buried in Bishop's Stortford Old Cemetery.
Additional Information
On some records his death date is recorded as 2 August 1920.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
