zbrockhurst Samuel Needham Brocklehurst - Commemorated in STOKE-ON-TRENT (BURSLEM) CEMETERY
Rank:Serjeant
Service No:203990
Date of Death:12/04/1918 - Age 38
Regiment/Service:North Staffordshire Regiment 8th Bn.
Enlisted - 24/06/1916
Moblisied - 14/03/1917
Posted - 26/03/1917 - 2nd Bn
Posted - 05/06/1917 -3rd Bn
Promoted Sgt
Posted - 21/01/1918 - 12th Bn
Posted - 02/02/1918 - 8th Bn
Formerly 1384, Staffordshire Yeomanry.
Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel Reference: Panel 124 to 125 and 162 to 162A.
Awarded BWM & VM
Previous Occupation Farm Labourer
Additional Information
Husband to Florence Louisa Brocklehurst
of 7 Buxton Street, Sneyd Green, Hanley, (1911)
Samuel was born 1880and was a Farmer within the area, he first enlisted in 1902 at age 22 as No:1384 as part of the Territorial Force of the 1st/1st Staffordshire Yeomanry - he is described with a height of 5ft 7inches with a fresh complexion, dark brown hair and brown eyes.
His first enlistment which started on 7th April 1902 signing the document at Shelton and each year he would attend each annual training camp sadly not mentioned within his records - he was promoted to Corporal 27th Feb 1907 and he discharged 31st March 1908
He continued and re-engaged on the 9th April 1908 again signing at Shelton and continued with the annual camps, 1908 Henley, 1909 Trentham, 1910 Croxton Park, 1911 Keele Park, 1912 Barton in Needwood, 1913 and 1914 are not mentioned.
He embodied for overseas war service on 5th August 1914 and shortly afterwards on 3rd December 1914 was promoted to Sergeant and most of their training took place in training at Diss, Norfolk. The regiment was ordered to join the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in 1915, sending 1/1st Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Regiment) to participate in the Sinai Palestine Campaign at the last minute. embarking at Southampton on 27th October arriving at Alexandria Egypt on 19th November 1915, Samuel was sent home 22nd March 1916 under the order of "Time Expired" aboard H.T Tunisian and was discharged in Stafford on 14th April 1916.
Samuel decided re-enlist once again on 24th June 1916 as No:4448 North Staffordshire Regiment, sadly only to be placed under Army Reserves as his age been 36 and that his time was expired but as the war grew longer and more men need he finally was mobilized on 14th March 1917 as No:203990 and was immediately promoted to Sergeant on the 17th March 1917 and posted to the 2nd Battalion at HQ based at Whittington Barracks in Lichfield on 26th March, then to the 3rd Battalion on the 5th June at Wallsend, North Tyneside and then proceeded to France embarking at Folkstone 22 January 1918 and Dis-embarking at Calais a day later and reporting to No:12 Infantry Base Deport for orders to join which ever Battalion needed him, on the 2nd Feb 1918 he was posted to the 8th battalion and joined the them in the field on the 16th - the war diaries mentions heavy attacking from the enemy on the 12th April in the areas of Wulverghem and Lindenhoek, sadly Samuel was reported missing and his body was never recovered he is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium and also remembered on a family grave in Burslem cemetery - he was awarded the 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal and the Victory Medal, his wife Florence Louisa who resided at 7 Buxton Street, Sneyd Green would have received these medals along with the death plaque and the kings scroll.
zbrockhurst Samuel Needham Brocklehurst - Commemorated in STOKE-ON-TRENT (BURSLEM) CEMETERY
Rank:Serjeant
Service No:203990
Date of Death:12/04/1918 - Age 38
Regiment/Service:North Staffordshire Regiment 8th Bn.
Enlisted - 24/06/1916
Moblisied - 14/03/1917
Posted - 26/03/1917 - 2nd Bn
Posted - 05/06/1917 -3rd Bn
Promoted Sgt
Posted - 21/01/1918 - 12th Bn
Posted - 02/02/1918 - 8th Bn
Formerly 1384, Staffordshire Yeomanry.
Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel Reference: Panel 124 to 125 and 162 to 162A.
Awarded BWM & VM
Previous Occupation Farm Labourer
Additional Information
Husband to Florence Louisa Brocklehurst
of 7 Buxton Street, Sneyd Green, Hanley, (1911)
Samuel was born 1880and was a Farmer within the area, he first enlisted in 1902 at age 22 as No:1384 as part of the Territorial Force of the 1st/1st Staffordshire Yeomanry - he is described with a height of 5ft 7inches with a fresh complexion, dark brown hair and brown eyes.
His first enlistment which started on 7th April 1902 signing the document at Shelton and each year he would attend each annual training camp sadly not mentioned within his records - he was promoted to Corporal 27th Feb 1907 and he discharged 31st March 1908
He continued and re-engaged on the 9th April 1908 again signing at Shelton and continued with the annual camps, 1908 Henley, 1909 Trentham, 1910 Croxton Park, 1911 Keele Park, 1912 Barton in Needwood, 1913 and 1914 are not mentioned.
He embodied for overseas war service on 5th August 1914 and shortly afterwards on 3rd December 1914 was promoted to Sergeant and most of their training took place in training at Diss, Norfolk. The regiment was ordered to join the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in 1915, sending 1/1st Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Regiment) to participate in the Sinai Palestine Campaign at the last minute. embarking at Southampton on 27th October arriving at Alexandria Egypt on 19th November 1915, Samuel was sent home 22nd March 1916 under the order of "Time Expired" aboard H.T Tunisian and was discharged in Stafford on 14th April 1916.
Samuel decided re-enlist once again on 24th June 1916 as No:4448 North Staffordshire Regiment, sadly only to be placed under Army Reserves as his age been 36 and that his time was expired but as the war grew longer and more men need he finally was mobilized on 14th March 1917 as No:203990 and was immediately promoted to Sergeant on the 17th March 1917 and posted to the 2nd Battalion at HQ based at Whittington Barracks in Lichfield on 26th March, then to the 3rd Battalion on the 5th June at Wallsend, North Tyneside and then proceeded to France embarking at Folkstone 22 January 1918 and Dis-embarking at Calais a day later and reporting to No:12 Infantry Base Deport for orders to join which ever Battalion needed him, on the 2nd Feb 1918 he was posted to the 8th battalion and joined the them in the field on the 16th - the war diaries mentions heavy attacking from the enemy on the 12th April in the areas of Wulverghem and Lindenhoek, sadly Samuel was reported missing and his body was never recovered he is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium and also remembered on a family grave in Burslem cemetery - he was awarded the 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal and the Victory Medal, his wife Florence Louisa who resided at 7 Buxton Street, Sneyd Green would have received these medals along with the death plaque and the kings scroll.