BORN HULL 1889. ELDEST SON OF SAM & SARAH ANN HEWISON, OF 20 WESTCOTT STREET, HULL. HE SERVED HIS APPRENTICESHIP AT HULL PRINTERS LTD., AND AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR WAS A PRINTER IN LIVERPOOL. HIS WIFE MIRIAM TURNER, LIVED AT PRINCES ROAD, MANCHESTER.
HE ENLISTED IN THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT IN APRIL 1916, AND IN DECEMBER 1916 WAS DRAFTED TO THE DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY. HE DIED OF WOUNDS RECEIVED ON 9TH APRIL 1917, AGED 27. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 4TH MAY 1917, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
HIS BROTHER, HAD SERVED IN THE 10TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, SINCE ITS FORMATION, ANOTHER BROTHER AND NEPHEW WERE IN THE NAVY, ANOTHER NEPHEW WAS KILLED IN FRANCE AND ANOTHER NEPHEW WOUNDED.
First name:
SAMUEL LUSBY
Military Number:
53297
Rank:
Corporal
Date Died
09/04/1917
Place died:
Bucquoy Road Cemetery, Ficheux, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
27
