Name
Samuel George Haylock
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/02/1917
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sapper
546478
Royal Engineers
510 London Field Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GUARDS' CEMETERY, LESBOEUFS
III. R. 3.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Christ Church Memorial, Watford, Not on the Abbots Langley memorials, Not on the Leavesden memorials, We are not currently aware of any memorial in St Stephen
Biography
Samuel Haylock was born in 1886 at St Stephens, Leavesden, and in 1910 he married Florence Atkins from 5 Adrian Road Abbots Langley. He was not recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour, or on the Abbots Langley War Memorial. His association with Abbots Langley was identified in the Hertfordshire Roll of Honour records where he was recorded as a resident of Shakespeare Street (Watford) and Abbots Langley, and married to Florence, and also brother in law of Charley and Frederick Atkins, both from Abbots Langley.
Samuel was one of three sons and three daughters of Frederick and Ellen Haylock. Frederick was a General Farm Labourer and in the 1891 Census the family lived at Bricket Wood Common. In the 1901 Census the family was living at 38 Cecil Street, Callowland, Watford. By 1911 Samuel had married Florence Atkins, from Abbots Langley, and together with their daughter Winifred, the family was living at 36 Sandringham Road in Watford. It is uncertain when, as the Hertfordshire Roll of Honour indicated, the family lived in Abbots Langley, and this may have been after Samuel enlisted on 29th May 1915. At that point he gave his address at Sandringham Road. At the time of his death, his wife had returned to her parents’ home at 5 Adrian Road, Abbots Langley.
Little is known of his military career, however he was recorded killed in action on 1st February 1917.
Samuel Haylock was buried in the Guards Cemetery, Les Boeufs, France and was commemorated at Watford Christchurch Street Shrine War Memorial. He was not listed on the Abbots Langley War Memorial.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
