SAMPSON, Harry Percy
| Service Numbers: | 2261, 2152 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 March 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 37th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Port Pirie, South Australia,, 20 January 1892 |
| Home Town: | Port Pirie, Port Pirie City and Dists, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Port Pirie Public School, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Butcher |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Armentières, France , 27 February 1917, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gladstone Uniting Church Memorial Window, Port Pirie Fathers of Sailors and Soldiers Association Port Pirie District Roll of Honor WW1, Port Pirie Oval WW1 Memorial Gates |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, 2261 | |
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| 28 Aug 1916: | Involvement Private, 2152, 43rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 28 Aug 1916: | Embarked Private, 2152, 43rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Adelaide | |
| 27 Feb 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 2261, 37th Infantry Battalion | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 2261, 37th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Kearney
The 37th battalion moved to France on 23 November 1916 and within a week of arriving began to occupy trenches on the Western Front, just in time for the onset of the terrible winter of 1916-17. During this time the 3rd Division was heavily involved in raiding the German trenches.
In February 1917 the 37th Battalion provided 400 troops, with a similar party from the 38th Battalion, to form a special raiding "battalion". After several weeks of training this force staged a single 35-minute raid on the night of 27 February following which Lance Corporal Harry Percy Sampson was reported missing; a court of enquiry later found from witness reports he had been killed during the raid.
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