Ref ID: 6168
Name
Samuel Saulters
Description
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Certificate relating to Rifleman Samuel Saulters
Life Story
Name: Samuel Saulters
Service Number: 5779.
Rank: Rifleman.
Battalion: 2nd Battalion.
Regiment: Royal Irish Rifles.
Born:
Died: 27 November 1915.
Address: 26 Weir Street, Belfast
.
Samuel Saulters, son of Samuel and Isabella Saulters, lived with his wife and children at 26 Weir Street, Shankill Road, Belfast
.
Samuel joined the Royal Irish Rifles.
He was posted as part of the British Expeditionary Force to France on the 31st August 1914.
Samuel was a Rifleman in 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles when he Died of Infective Endocarditis Contacted On Active Service on the 27th November 1915
.
Local Newspapers, both the Belfast News Letter and Northern Whig in November 1914 had reported Samuel as wounded
.
Samuels Soldiers Effects were left to his widow.
A Pension Application Form shows his widow as claimant.
Dependant Pension Application Forms show both his mother and wife as claimants. They also show that Samuel and Elizabeth had three children, Samuel born 15th June 1908, John Orr born 28th April 1914, and William James born 12th August 1905 who it claims was born out of wedlock, and that his mother lived at 10 Edenderry Street, Belfast.
.
See brother also: 10639 Private William Saulters 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
.
Samuel received the British War Medal, Victory Medal and 1914 Star
.
He is Remembered at South-On-Sea ()Sutton Road) Cemetery, United Kingdom.
To Remember Is To Honour
.
Theme
Shankill Roll of Honour
Date
0
Classification
Book or Journal,
Certificate/Permit,
Roll of Honour or Memorial
