Samuel Scull
Memorial: Kingswood - Holy Trinity Church
Regiment: Grenadier Guards
Medals: 1914–15 Star, British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Silver War Badge, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Private 27636
Parents: William and Rose Scull
Marital status: Married
Home address: Kingswood, Bristol
Pre-war occupation: Boot Maker
Date of birth: 1887
Place of birth: Bitton, Bristol
Date of death: 04/11/1918
Buried/Commemorated at: Buried at Cross Roads Cemetery, Fontaine-Au-Bois, Nord, France and commemorated on Kingswood Holy Trinity Memorial
Age: 31
Further information:
Samuel was born in Bitton, the son of a bootmaker and the eldest child of five with two sisters and two brothers. Samuel began work as a bootmaker at the young age of 13 and married Charlotte Reed in 1913 when he was 26.
Samuel enlisted in 1914, initially as a Guardsman and served with the 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, his battalion was mobilised to Belgium during that October. Samuel’s battalion took part in various actions on the Western Front including the Final Advance in Picardy and Samuel was killed in action on the day of the Battle of the Sambre, the last major engagement of the war. The battle itself was a decisive allied victory and the war ended seven days later.
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This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/