BORN HULL 1891. SON OF LEN & SUSAN HUNTER. EX RECKITTS WORKER. ENLISTED HULL. PRIOR TO WAR HE WORKED AS A STONE POLISHER, AT RECKITT’S CANNISTER WORKS, STONEFERRY. HE HAD PREVIOUSLY SERVED THREE YEARS IN THE TERRITORIALS. HIS TWO BROTHERS JOHN AND LEONARD ALSO SERVED IN THE ARMY. ANOTHER BROTHER WAS A MEMBER OF THE HULL CITY POLICE FORCE.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 7TH EYR. WAS REPORTED WOUNDED THEN KILLED IN ACTION, ON 12/05/1917, AGED 26. HE LEFT WIDOW ABIGAIL HUNTER AND PARENTS LEN & SUSAN HUNTER.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 15TH FEBRUARY 1918, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *.
HIS BROTHER LEN HUNTER WAS ALSO KILLED ON 24/8/18.
First name:
SAMUEL
Regiment:
Military Number:
33428
Rank:
Private
Date Died
12/05/1917
Place died:
Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
26
