Name
Joseph Samuel
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/07/1916
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
11649
Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 6 B.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon
Pre War
Born in 1893 in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire son of William and Rosina (Moll) Samuel and was living in 21 Paul’s Lane, Hoddesdon in 1901 and in 1911. He was a “tennis stick maker”.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Islington, London entered France on 27 Jul 1915 and was killed in action on the Somme.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
