Private Samuel Hayes

Army Number: 20041

Battalion : 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Brampton, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Son of Mrs Betsy Hayes, of 121, Chatsworth Road, Brampton, Chesterfield. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Chesterfield. He went to France on 14th July 1915 and was killed in action, 14th February 1916, aged 33, during heavy German shellfire and the explosion of a German mine, prior to the German attack of the front line trenches, near the canal to the south-east of Ypres, Belgium.

Commemorated: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.

Private Samuel Hayes is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Thomas the Apostles War Memorial, Brampton, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.