BORN HULL 1885. SON OF JOHN PAGE GASCOIGNE (1855-1912) & ANNIE LOUISA STUBBINS, OF 14 BLENHEIM TERRACE, WORSLEY STREET, HULL. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. EX BLUNDELLS PAINT WORKER, WHERE HE HAD WORK SING AGED 14. HE MARRIED LILY RAMSDEN, AT HULL, IN 1905. HIS WIFE, LILY AND DAUGHTER, NORA LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVING IN THE SAME 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE PIONEERS AS HIS BROTHER. SERVED AT GALLOPOLI. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 26/09/1916, AGED 31. HE IS COMMEMORATED AT THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING ON THE SOMME.
HIS ELDER BROTHER, PRIVATE, JOHN PAGE GASCOIGNE, 17556, 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE PIONEERS, WAS KILLED IN ACTION, TWO DAYS BEFORE, ON 24/09/1916, AGED 36. THEY ARE BOTH COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL.
First name:
SAMUEL ROY
Regiment:
Military Number:
11053
Rank:
Private
Date Died
26/09/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
31
67 MARLBOROUGH TERRACE, NORFOLK STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
