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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth King's Lynn
• Land Norfolk, England
• Last residence Woking, Surrey
• Family Son of John Henry and Pleasance Elizabeth Sampson (nee Grimes), of "Cintra," Uppleby Rd., Parkstone, Dorset; three brothers, two sisters; eldest brother Ernest Henry was a trooper in the 20th Hussars and died from typhoid in 1904;
• Education Poole Secondary School, Poole, Dorset
• Profession Bank clerk at the Capital and Counties Bank, Woking.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 16 February 1917, Woking
• Service number 35964
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 1st Bn. East Surrey Regiment
• Other data related to military career Sent to Belgium October 1917.

Death

• Wounded 6 November, Polderhoek Chateau
• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds, smashed left thigh in n°3 Canadian CCS
• Died at the age of 19
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXI - GG - 18A

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