Name
Samuel Woollatt
September quarter 1880
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/03/1918
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
203511
Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire) Regiment
5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 56 and 57.
France
Headstone Inscription
Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Sandridge memorials
Pre War
Samuel Woollatt was born in Sandridge, Hertfordshire to William Woollatt and Hannah nee Manlove. His birth was registered in the September quarter 1880 in St. Albans.
He was the third of seven children born to this couple. Samuel had three brothers and three sisters.
Samuel was baptised at the parish church of St Leonards Church, on 18th July 1880, in Sandridge, Hertfordshire, England.
Less than a year later his father William, a farmer, moved the family to Aston End Farm, (now Lord’s Farm) in the village of Aston near Stevenage.
Here in the 1881 census his father is recorded as a Farmer of 200 acres and employing six men. Samuel is only 9 months old.
By 1891 Samuel aged 10, was a scholar and another four children had been born into the family still living at Aston End Farm.
By 1901 the family had moved to Berkshire, Samuel at 20 years old was living and working in his father’s Bakery/ Grocery Store and Corn Dealer business in the village of Sunninghill, Berkshire. Also at home on the night of the census were 2 other brothers and 3 of his sisters.
Samuel married Annie Wilson, from Goring. The marriage was registered in the July quarter of 1907 when he was 27 years old.
His first child Vera Winifred was born on 16th August 1908.
In 1911 census Samuel , Annie have been married for three and half years and have only one child recorded , Vera . They are living at 2 Purbeck Cottages, Bowden Road, Sunninghill. He records his occupation as Baker. He also has a sister-in- law boarding in the house.
Later that year, on Christmas Day 1911, Samuel becomes a father for the second time as his son Samuel Noel is born.
Wartime Service
Killed in action/
Additional Information
Following his death Annie his widow received a payment of £5.5s.10d on 18.9.1918 and then on 17.11.1918 a further £3. Both of Samuel and Annie’s children marry and go onto have children of their own. His daughter Vera Winifred married a Harold C Stephens in the Spring of 1930. His son Samuel Noel became a farmer, in Suffolk, like his grandfather William and married Mary Styles in the Gipping area of Suffolk in the Autumn of 1937.
Acknowledgments
Sarah Burns
Jonty Wild
