Service Number
4th/0205
Rank
Corporal
Firstname
Samuel
Lastname
Irwin
Battalion
1/4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
Notes

Attested 8 April 1908 with the 4th Battalion at Londesborough Street Barracks – re-numbered 200024 – Promoted Corporal Snapper June 1911 – Re-engaged for 1 years Snapper March 1912 – Medal Index Card Entered Boulogne France 17 April 1915 with 1/4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment – Field General Courts Marshal held at 50 Rue De Lille Charged with being drunk when parading for the trenches. Found Guilty and sentenced to Two years hard labour, and reduced to the ranks. Sentence of imprisonment to be suspended until after the war. October 1915 (War Diary) – 26 November 1915 Sentence received and further suspended D Company (War Diary) – Committed having refused to re-engage 30 March 1916 (War Diary) – Wounded casualty list Hull Daily Mail 26 August 1916 – East Yorkshire Regiment Posted wounded Snapper September 1916 – Discharged 28 February 1919 – Silver War Badge number 499827 – Silver War Badge list 0/5322/1 – para xvia Wounds – aged 34 – Disembodied – Pennington Street on Danson Lane Hull Roll of Honour Hull Daily Mail 25 October 1916 – Hull Absent Voters List Autumn 1918

Age
1886
Birthplace
Hull
Enlisted
Hull
Residence
Hull
Next of Kin
2 Pretoria Street Hawthorne Avenue Hull