Name
Samuel George Haylock
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/02/1917
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sapper
548478
Royal Engineers
510th London Field Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GUARDS' CEMETERY, LESBOEUFS
Plot III, Row R, Grave 3.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, Christ Church Memorial, Watford, Abbots Langley Village Memorial, Not on the Leavesden memorials, We are not currently aware of any memorial in St Stephens
Biography
Samuel Haylock was born in 1885 at St Stephens, Leavesden and baptised 11 April 1886 at All Saints, Leavesden, Herts. He married Florence Clara Bridger (formerly Haylock, nee Atkins) from 5 Adrian Road Abbots Langley on 14 May 1910 at Christ Church, Watford. He was not recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour, or on the Abbots Langley War Memorial. His association with Abbots Langley was identified in the Hertfordshire Roll of Honour records where he was recorded as a resident of Shakespeare Street (Watford) and Abbots Langley, and married to Florence, and also brother in law of Charley and Frederick Atkins, both from Abbots Langley.
Samuel was one of three sons and three daughters of Frederick Giles and Ellen (nee Taylor) Haylock. His parents married 11 March 1882 at St Giles’, Ickenham, Middx. Ellen died 1922 in Watford aged 67, and was buried 4 February in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Frederick died 1945 in Watford aged 87, and was buried 30 November, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Frederick was a General Farm Labourer and in the 1891 Census the family including Samuel’s his parents and five siblings, lived at Bricket Wood Common. In the 1901 Census the family was living at 38 Cecil Street, Callowland, Watford. Frederick was then a railway carriage cleaner aged 15.
By 1911 Samuel had married Florence and together with their daughter Winifred, the family was living at 36 Sandringham Road in Watford, Samuel was a house painter aged 25. It is uncertain when, as the Hertfordshire Roll of Honour indicated, the family lived in Abbots Langley, and this may have been after Samuel enlisted on 29th May 1915. At that point he gave his address at Sandringham Road. At the time of his death, his wife had returned to her parents’ home at 5 Adrian Road, Abbots Langley.
He attested 29 May 1915 in London N.E. for the Territorial Force, 4 years’ service in the United Kingdom, Sapper 2508 1st London Divisional Engineers, of Watford.
He had previously been in the 4th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment (disbanded). He was transferred to the 1/2nd Field Company 14 January 1916 and was with the 510th Battalion Royal Engineers when he was killed in action. He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals.
Samuel Haylock was buried in the Guards Cemetery, Les Boeufs, France and was commemorated at Watford Christchurch Street Shrine War Memorial. He was not listed on the Abbots Langley War Memorial. His brother Arthur was recorded on the Roll of Honour at All Saints Church, Leavesden. Arthur was discharged from the Bedfordshire Regiment and survived the War.
Florence remarried 1923 in the Watford district to Thomas F H BRIDGER, and died 4 December 1975 in Longwick, Bucks, aged 83.
Additional Information
Recorded as HAYLOCK S C in the Borough Roll of Honour. There is an In Memoriam for Samuel in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 2 February 1918.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk), Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
