Person    | Male  Born 19/1/1903  Died 24/5/1940

E. G. Sampson

War dead, WW2 i

Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW2.

E. G. Sampson

Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man:
Serjeant Ernest George Sampson. Born on 19 January 1903 at 79 Dover Road, Northfleet, Kent, the son of Frederick George Sampson and Agnes May Sampson, née Sutton. His father was a GPO Sorter. His father died in 1905 and the 1911 census shows him living at 31 Havelock Road, Gravesend, Kent with his widowed mother who was a now a Boarding House Keeper, his maternal grandmother, Agnes Millicent Sutton, and a male boarder. In September 1919 he was appointed as an Assistant Postman in London and in July 1922 he was promoted to Postman in Gravesend. In May 1929 he became a Sorter in the London Postal Service West. In 1930 he married Marjorie Winifred Pinfold in Gravesend and they had three sons, Michael Frederick Sampson who was born on 7 August 1932, Edward W Sampson who was born in 1936 and Jeffrey John Sampson who was born on 19 January 1939. He joined the 7th Battalion Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, service number 2203354, and died on war service on 24 May 1940, aged 37 years. He is buried in Plot 10, Row 24, Grave 8 of the St Quentin Northern Communal Cemetery, Department de l’Aisne, Picardie, France. Probate was granted to his widow and that showed they had been living at 57 Valley Drive, Gravesend. His effects totalled £935-18s-8d. He was posthumously awarded The 1939-1945 Star and The 1939-1945 War Medal.

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Western Postal District war memorial - Rathbone Place

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