Corporal Samuel Humberstone

Army Number: 1424

Battalion: 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby) Regiment.

Born in Nottingham. Husband of Lilla Humberstone, of Westgate, Southwell, Nottinghamshire. Enlisted in Southwell, Nottinghamshire. 11th March 1912. Was a lace curtain maker at Carey & Sons, Southwell, Nottinghamshire. Went to France on 28th February 1915. Was appointed Lance-Corporal 30th May 1915, promoted Corporal 9th June 1915. Died 31st July 1915, Aged 25 after heavy shelling of Zouave Wood, on the Ypres salient.

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

Corporal Samuel Humberstone is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Southwell Minster Parishioners War Memorial, Southwell, Nottinghamshire.
Carey & Sons War Memorial, Southwell, Nottinghamshire.

His brother Corporal Arthur Humbertson, 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby) Regiment also fell.