Origins FAM 14H
SAMUEL (2135) bp 30.08.1885 Oakham Rutland UK
Army Information on SAMUEL (2135) :
28 or 29 November 1902 enlisted into the Leicestershire Regiment, service number 412
.... I believe he was a year under age when he enlisted
28 Jan 1904 Promoted to Corporal
29 Nov 1904 Good Conduct Badge
08 May 1905 Transferred to Royal Army Medical Corps,
reverted to Private.
20 Jul 1906 Promoted again to Corporal
In August 1914, living in Australia, called up as a Reservist, and helped train soldiers for the A I F. He wrote to War Dept in England and got permission to rejoin his old unit. He left Australia 07 Jun 1915 on SS Geelong, arriving 29 Jun at Port Suez where he spent seven
weeks ! He continued to England on SS Ciramic. Posted to .....?
09 Aug 1915. He was demobbed 10 Jun 1919, living in Woking 15 Jun 1920,
and in June 1923 was living Railway Crescent, Welshpool, W A
He married 16 Jan 1915 at Perth W A to Lucy Florence Watkins, she of 9 Barister St Blackpool. He died 13 Nov 1956, and Lucy F died in 1992, 2 months before her 102nd birthday.
Their children were :
THOMAS JAMES SAMUEL(7547)born 03 Nov 1915 at Freemantle. He enlisted in Darwin, Northern Territory Service number WX17588 was in Militia, then joined Regular Army before WW2.
He was captured in Timor and a POW at Changi, on the Burma Railway, and Kyushu.
He saw the Nagasaki A bomb explosion.Married 1947 to Peggy Herman (Hermanson?).
2006 Mar 8 died aged 89 buried in Karrakatta Cemetery Plot Lance Howard Memorial Gardens Wall 11-0031.
Children : PETER JOHN (7549)born Papua New Guniea 23.11.1951. Married Fremantle 09.01.1982 to Judith Evelyn Cross.
Children :
09.02.1985 Claire Veronica
31.05.1987 Rebecca Michelle
13.01.1994 Natalie Peggy
Address : 16 Pallas Place Willeton W A
email : Peter Cunnington@argylediamonds.com.auToni Margharita born Papua New Guinea ......1954. Married to Robert Pooley, they have 2 children.
LLOYD (7548) born c1920. RAAF in WW2.
Married (1)to......., they had one child, daughter Elaine, who is living Adelaide.
Lloyd divorced late 1940s, and married (2) to Evelyn Godley in Melbourne.
No children, and she died 1993. Lloyd remarried (1998?)to Cecelia.
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