Snow, Samuel

BORN HULL 03/12/1881. ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM & MARY ELIZABETH SNOW, OF 24 LIME STREET, HULL. MARRIED SARAH ANN YEAMAN ON 14/03/1903, AT ST MARTINS, HULL. EMPLOYED AS A STARCH WORKS LABOURER, LIVING AT 23 JOHNS PLACE, CHAPMAN STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 23/12/1914, AGED 32. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 30/06/1915. SERVED WITHTHE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE WAS WOUNDED IN THE HEAD ON 09/09/1915 AND WOUNDED AGAIN ON 02/10/1915. HE RETURNED TO HIS UNIT ON 03/11/1915. REPORTED MISSING AND KILLED ON 1ST JULY 1916, AGED 34. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THEIPVAL MEMORIAL, TO THE MISSING, ON THE SOMME. HIS WIDOW SARAH ANN REMARRIED AND BECAME MRS MEKIN. SHE AND HER THREE DAUGHTERS, VIOLET, FLORENCE AND ISOBEL, MOVED TO 4 ROBINSON ROW, HULL. SHE RECEIVED A WEEKLY WAR PENSION OF 20 SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE, GRANTED ON 15/03/1917. SAMUEL SNOW ALSO LEFT BROTHERS, WILLIAM, ROBERT AND THOMAS SNOW, AND SISTERS, ADA HOWES, HANNAH LONG, ELIZABETH WALKER AND ISABELLA COGGIN. HIS NAME WAS LISTED ON THE SPYVEE STREET & ST MARKS STREET ROH. EX RECKITT’S.
Elaine Hood (elliehood@hotmail.co.uk) writes on 6/4/16 –
“Hi have just come across Samuel Snow in war memorial 1914 to 1918, he was my grandma Hilda Jones (nee Snow) brother, he married Sarah Ann Yeaman, they both lived down Chapman Street when they married, Sarah remarried & her surname was Mekin & she lived at 4 Robinson Way. I was from Spyvee Street myself
Elaine Hood (nee Jones)”