Private 200192 Samuel Welsby
Regiment/Unit: Tank Corps - 1st Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Previous Reg/Num: 38244, Machine Gun Corps.
Age at death: 26
Date of death: 25th of March 1918
Born: Rainhill, Lancs
Resided: Rainhill, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Pozieres Memorial - Panel 94
Census details:
1901 - 8 years old Samuel is living at 5 Market Street, Rainhill with parents Joseph (a confectioner 29), Sarah E (28) and two siblings: Lily (4), Alfred (1). 1911 - Sees 18 years old 'Assistant In Business' Samuel still living at Market Street, Rainhill with parents Joseph (a confectioner 39), Sarah Eliz (assistant 38) and five siblings: Lily (14), Elizabeth (13), Alfred (11), Harold (9), Dorothy (4).
Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=50]Remembered on St Anne's War Memorial, Rainhill[/url]
[url=lmem.php?lmem=50]Remembered on St Anne's War Memorial, Rainhill[/url]
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[pic]imgs/WW1_headstones/Welsby_Samuel.jpg[/pic][caption]A dedication for Private Samuel Welsby at Rainhill (St.Ann's) Churchyard
(Photo courtesy of Jeff Keenan)[/caption]
[pic]imgs/WW1_memorials/SWelsby_Tanks.jpg[/pic][caption]The inscription for Private Samuel Welsby on the Pozieres Memorial
(Photograph courtesy of Ste M.)[/caption]
