Sam grew up at 1, Queen Street and later 2, Victoria Avenue with his father, Sam and six older brothers who all served in the Armed Forces during the war but .  He worked at Wharram (a large house, perhaps in Scarborough?) as a porter before he was conscripted into the Royal Field Artillery.  He joined ‘C’ Battery, 317^th Brigade and was attached to the Royal Naval Division in France where he was a Gunner for about twelve months before he was ‘dangerously wounded’.  He died of this injury and was buried in Rocquiny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery.

          Sam’s brother, Harry was also wounded during the war with a bullet through the hand about six weeks after Sam’s death but recovered and saw the rest of the war out in the trenches.