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Edmund Sample died of unknown wounds on 15 Nov 1917. He was one of three brothers to die in 1916-17, younger brothers Fred and John died on 9 Apr 1917 and 13 Nov 1916 respectively. Brothers, Arthur and Sidney, also spent time in the army.
Edmund Sample was a member of the Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Force, serving as a gunner and at the time of his death he was an Acting Bombardier. He was part of “C” Battery, 317th Brigade, Royal Artillery. He served 12 years as a regular soldier in the Royal Artillery between 1894 and 1906 and served ten years in India, he also served in the local militia. He re-enlisted in 1915, he died in a military hospital in Rouen and is buried at the St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France. Edmund was awarded the War and Victory Medals and is remembered on the Hengate War Memorial in Beverley.
Edmund James Sample was born in 1877 at Little Cressingham, Norfolk, one of 14 children of Henry and Elizabeth Sample. They were a farming family and Edmund worked as a farm labourer before joining the army in 1894, when he left the military he came to Hull. In 1907 he married Kate Louisa Brown in Hull and became an industrial worker. In 1911 he was living in Wawne Street, off Spring Bank, Hull and was a grain warehouse labourer. His younger brother Fred was lodging with him and shared hi occupation.
His parents, Henry and Elizabeth Sample, moved to Beverley aearly in the war, and lived at 16 Sloe Lane. Many of Edmund’s sisters had already moved to this area, working in domestic service and at the East Riding (Broadgate) Asylum. Younger brother, John, also spent a short time at Holmechurch Lane, Beverley.
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