BORN HULL 24/11/1881. SON OF GEORGE CALEY (1843-1921) & ELIZA THOMPSON ( 1847-1918), OF HULL. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. FIVE OF WHICH DIED IN INFANCY. A STEVEDORE AND GRAIN FOREMAN.
HE MARRIED ADA TASKER, AT ST JAMES CHURCH, SUTTON ON HULL, ON 23/12/1908. HUSBAND OF ADA CALEY, AT 3 IVY VILLAS, MIDDLEBURG STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 8, EAST PARK AVENUE, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS).
HE ENLISTED IN THE 10TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT (1ST HULL PALS BATTALION). KILLED IN ACTION, ON 25/06/1916, AGED 35.
BURIED ON THE SOMME, AT BERTRANCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, FRANCE.
HE LEFT A BROTHER, THOMAS, AND SISTER, JANE.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, ADA , AND SON CHARLES CALEY (1910-1992). THIER DAUGHTER. ADA JOAN WAS BORN ON 4/3/1916.
HIS WIDOW, MARRIED GUNNER, G. SHAW, RGA, (NOW WORKING IN MUNITIONS), ON 28/4/1917.
SAM’S NAME APPEARS ON HULL STEVEDORES SOCIETY ROLL OF HONOUR IN ODDFELLOWS HALL, HULL. (HDM 17/04/1917, PRINTS ALL THE STEVEDORE NAMES)
