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