SAMSON, David
| Service Number: | 3548 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Whitland, Carmarthenshire, Wales. United Kingdom, 1893 |
| Home Town: | Collie, Collie, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner at Collie |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Flers, France, 11 April 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 3548, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
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| 1 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 3548, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Benalla, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Births Sep 1893 Samson David Newcastle E. 11b 15
Newcastle E. is an alternative name for Newcastle in Emlyn and it spans the boundaries of the counties of Cardiganshire, Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire.
He enlisted at Blackboy, Western Australia, into the Australian Imperial Force on 23 July 1915. David embarked as part of the 11th Reinforcements of the 16th Battalion at Adelaide on 27 October, 1915 aboard H.M.A.T. Benalla, and arrived in Egypt by February 1916. He had several spells of sickness in Egypt, requiring hospital treatment, but was fit enough by June 1916 to embark aboard the H.S. Arngow and travel to England. He embarked to France in September 1916 after a spell at Larkhill Camp, and joined the 16th Battalion in the field on 1 October 1916, missing the fighting at Pozieres, and spent the winter of 1916/1917 entrenched near Flers on the Somme. David was Killed in Action near Flers on 11 April 1917 aged 24.
His brother also fell; he was Lance Corporal Benjamin Samson-4118, 32nd Bn. Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force.
They were sons of David Samson, of Tredfedr, Llanglydwen, Hebron, South Wales.
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