BORN HULL 1888. LIVED LIVERPOOL. SON OF SAMUEL ANNISON (1851-1920) AND ZELLA BARKER (1856-1906). HIS MOTHER WAS BORN IN HULL. HIS FATHER WAS FROM NORFOLK AND WORKED AT BLUNDELL’S PAINT WORKS HULL. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. SAM WAS A TAILOR SHOP ASSISTANT.
HE MARRIED, SARAH MILLICENT DAVIES, IN TOXTETH, ON 24/12/1910. THEY LIVED AT 76 VAN DYKE STREET, LIVERPOOL.
HE ENLISTED AT LIVERPOOL. SERVING AS LANCE CORPORAL, IN THE 6TH LIVERPOOL REGIMENT. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 20/09/1917, AGED 29. HE IS BURIED AT TYNE COT CEMETERY, BELGIUM. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “GOD HOLDS THE KEY OF ALL UNKNOWN”
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, SARAH MILLICENT ANNISON. HIS BROTHER ARTHUR, SERVED IN THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE WAR.
First name:
SAM
Regiment:
Military Number:
242631
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
20/09/1917
Place died:
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
29
76 VAN DYKE STREET, LIVERPOOL, MERSEYSIDE, LANCASHIRE, UK
Place Buried
