Samuel George Turvey

Memorial: Mangotsfield - St James Place

Regiment: Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Medals: British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal

Rank and number: Private G/29188

Parents: George Henry and Emma Turvey

Marital status: Single

Home address: Windsor Place, Mangotsfield, Bristol

Date of birth: 1899

Place of birth: Keynsham, Bristol

Date of death: 23/08/1918

Buried/Commemorated at: Beacon Cemetery, Sailly-Laurette, Picardie, Northern France

Age: 19

Further information:

1st/20th (Blackheath and Woolwich) Battalion, London Regiment, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Formerly 43090 Hampshire Regiment

While the Mangotsfield War Memorial shows Samuel's rank as Lance Corporal all other military records show him as being a Private

Samuel was Killed in Action during the Battle of Albert. Samuel's body was exhumed from his temporary battlefield grave quite some time later and re-interred in the Beacon Cemetery, Sailly-Laurette, Picardie, in Northern France

By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):

Battalion War Diary, Imperial War Graves Commission, National Archives, Attestation papers, Medals Index Card, David Blackmore