Name
Samuel Tyrell Faulkner
1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/03/1918
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
28365
The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Berkhamsted memorials, Dunstable War Memorial Dunstable Scouts Roll of Honour
Pre War
Samuel Tyrell Faulkner was born in 1898 n Berkhamsted, the son of Henry and Annie Faulkner, and was baptised on 24 April 1898 in Great Berkhamsted. He was initially one of four children.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 288 Berkhamsted Road, Chesham, Bucks were his father was working as a grocer's assistant. His mother died in 1907 and his father remarried to Marianne Wells in Luton in 1908 and they had two more children. By the time of the 1911 Census the family were living 3 Winfield Street, Dunstable, Beds and his father was working as a printer's clerk and Samuel was a 13 year old scholar.
Samuel was a pack leader with the Dunstable troop of the Boy Scouts Association which had been set up following the publication of Robert Baden-Powell's book, 'Scouting for Boys' in 1908.
Wartime Service
Samuel enlisted in Luton and initially joined the Army Cyclist Corps under reg. no. 12407, later transferring to the 9th Battalion, the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. (N.B. medal index card also suggest he was a Private with the Liverpool Regiment, reg. no. 86358).
He was killed in action on 24 March 1918 during the Battle of the Somme 1918. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £8 and pay owing of £5 11s 2d. He also received a pension of 5 shillings a week for life.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, www.roll-of-honour.com/Bedfordshire
