Name
Samuel Theodore Shailer
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/10/1918
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
33769
Bedfordshire Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BERLIN SOUTH-WESTERN CEMETERY
XVIII. A. 10.
Germany
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth UDC Memorial St Mary’s Church Roll of Honour, Rickmansworth Not on the Walkern memorials
Pre War
Samuel
Theodore Shailer was born in 1888 and baptised on 30 December 1888 in
Harlington Middlesex, son of Samuel and Mary Shailer. In 1891, the family were living
at Harlington, Middlesex, where Samuel senior was working as an agricultural
labourer. Samuel had 1 elder sister, Ellen and 2 elder brothers, Richard and
John. By 1901, they were living in Clapham, Surrey, where their father was a
general labourer. In 1908 Samuel Shailer was listed as a beer retailer at the Prince
of Wales, Woodcock Hill, Rickmansworth. They were living there at the time of
the 1911 census when Samuel, along with his brother Richard, was working for a
builder. In 1914, Samuel married Emily S. Parker in Hertford. They had a son
Richard A, whose birth was registered in Watford April-June 1916. Emily remarried
in 1920 to Henry Warner and was living at Beecroft Road, Walkern, Stevenage
Samuel’s
brother, Richard Shailer who died on 19/10/1916 in Greece is also commemorated
on the Rickmansworth memorials.
Wartime Service
Samuel
Shailer died of sickness whilst in Lamsdorf prisoner of war camp.(now Lambinowice in
Poland) In 1922-23 the graves of
Commonwealth servicemen who died all over Germany, including those from
Lamsdorf cemetery in Silesia, were brought together into permanent cemeteries.
His effects of £28 5s were
left to his widow, Emily Shailer. The inscription on his grave reads
Additional Information
Brother of Sapper Richard Shailer who died on 19 Oct 1916 in Greece and who is also commemorated on these memorials.
Acknowledgments
Pat Hamilton
Malcolm Lennox
