BORN HULL 1890. SON OF SAMUEL CONYERS (1864-1928) & PHOEBE ALICE CONYERS (1865-1949), OF 40, RICHMOND TERRACE, LIDDELL STREET, HULL (ARMY RECORD ADDRESS) AND 22 WATERLOO STREET, HULL (HULL DAILY AMIL ADDRESS – 13/06/1916).
HE WAS THE ELDEST OF EIGHT CHILDREN (THREE BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS). A CLERK AND TIME KEEPER, FOR MANY YEARS WITH BLUNDELL’S, SPENCE & COMPANY, AT BANKSIDE, HULL. ALSO WELL KNOWN IN ANGLING CIRCLES AND WINNER OF MANY FISHING COMPETITIONS.
ARMY MEDICAL RECORDS, DESCRIBE HIM AS 5 FOOT, 9.5 INCHES TALL, 189 LBS WEIGHT, AND 41 INCH CHEST SIZE, WITH “GOOD” VISION & “GOOD” PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT.
HE ENLISTED AT HULL ON 7TH SEPTEMBER 1914. SERVED AS, PRIVATE, 10/787, 10TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, (HULL COMMERCIALS). POST TO EGYPT FROM DECEMBER 1915. HE WAS THEN SENT TO FRANCE IN MARCH 1916 AND KILLED IN ACTION, ON 04/06/1916, AGED 26. HE WAS UNMARRIED AND LEFT NO CHILDREN.
HE IS BURIED AT SUCRERIE MILITARY CEMETERY, COLINCAMPS. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “GOD CALLED, HE WAS READY LIFE’S DUTY NOBLY DONE”. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH, ON 13/06/1916. *
Hull Pals Memorial Post: Born in April 1890, Samuel was the eldest of seven children to Samuel and Phoebe Conyers of 40 Richmond Terrace, Liddell Street, Hull. A Clerk by trade he enlisted at City Hall in the first week of September 1914 joining the 10th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Commercials’, 1st Hull Pals.
Samuel served in Egypt over the winter of 1915-16 before leaving Port Said bound for Marseilles the following March and from there the slow journey north to the trenches of the Western Front. He was killed in action during the bombardment of 4th June 1916 and there is a brief mention of him the recollections of the unnamed comrade who attempted to save Tich West. Tich was buried in earth from a collapsed parados after a shell exploded behind him:
“One forgets time in such circumstances, and how long I was so fixed I do not know. However, Sam Conyers came from the next bay to pull away the bags and was killed in the act”. Sam laid down his life in a bid to help his stricken comrades. He is buried in Sucrerie Military Cemetery; he was 26 years old.
