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Samuel was born in Beverley in 1886, son of Charles and Ann Elizabeth Coulbeck. His parents originated from Boston in Lincolnshire, and his father was a blacksmith in 1891, but was shown as a wood carver in the 1901 census and Samuel, aged 15, was a shoemaker’s apprentice. In the 1911 census he was living with his widowed mother in Beaver Road, Beverley, and was listed as a boot repairer.
An appeal for information about Samuels whereabouts in April 1918 in the Beverley Guardian reveled he was serving with the Northumberland Fusiliers (Tyneside Scottish). On 21 March 1918 Samuel was taken prisoner. POW records show he was captured at Bullecourt and imprisoned at Marchiennes where conditions were grim. After liberation, Samuel returned to Beverley in December 1918, and was transferred to the ‘Z’ reservists in Sep 1919. He was awarded the British War and Victory medals.
Samuel married Elizabeth Swallwell in St. Nicholas Church, Beverley, in Nov 1920, they had two daughters, one of whom died as an infant. The 1939 register shows Samuel as a shoe repairer, living in Athlestan Road, Beverley, with his daughter, Hilda. Elizabeth died in 1938. Samuel died in Dec 1960, at the age of 74
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