BORN LITTLE CRESSINGHAM, NORFOLK, 07/08/1886. SON OF HENRY AND ELIZABETH SAMPLE, OF 12, DENTON STREET, AND 16, SLOE LANE, BEVERLEY. HE WAS ONE OF THREE BROTHERS KILLED IN THE WAR.
HE WAS WORKING ON A FARM HANDLING HORSES. MARRIED ROSANNA AND HAD ONE CHILD. MOVED TO 6. COLUMBIA AVENUE, VICTOR STREET, HULL, (ARMY ADDRESS).
HIS SIBLINGS HAD ALSO MOVED TO HULL LIVING AT 6, WARNE TERRACE, WARNE STREET, SPRING BANK, WHERE HIS BROTHER FRED WORKED AS A GRAIN HOUSE LABOURER.
JOHN ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. SERVED WITH THE 13TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON 13/11/1916, AGED 30. HE IS BURIED AT EUSTON ROAD CEMETERY, FRANCE.
HIS NAME APPEARS ON HENGATE WW1 MEMORIAL, BEVERLEY.
HE LEFT A WIDOW, ROSANNA AND THREE CHILDREN, WHO REPORTED HIS DEATH IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 04/12/1916.
HIS BROTHER PRIVATE, FREDERICK SAMPLE, 8TH EYR WHO ALSO ENLISTED IN HULL WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 09/04/1917.
HIS OTHER HIS BROTHER, GUNNER, EDMUND SAMPLE, ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY, DIED IN FRANCE, ON 13/10/1917.
