11295 Private Samuel Sabell of the 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, was killed in action on the 7th July 1915. He was born in St Martin's, Warwick and enlisted at Birmingham around March 1915. He may well have had prior military service as he arrived overseas on the 2nd May 1915. He is possibly the same Samuel John Sabell whose birth was registered in Warwickshire in the June quarter of 1880. This man does not appear on the 1901 census and it's a possibility that he was serving with the British Army overseas, possibly in South Africa.
Samuel has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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2 comments:
Samuel was the brother of my Grandfather Albert Sabell.
Albert served as a driver in RFA on the Western Front from 1916-1919,and was wounded by shell fire.
Albert was the youngest of 5 brothers.
I believe all 5 brothers served. Samuel being the only 1 not to return.
Thank you for the remembrance.
Nigel Sabell
12 October 2011
Nigel, thank you for commenting and I am pleased to be able to remember Samuel. I have checked census returns and see that in 1891, Samuel was living with his parents, Elizabeth and George, and eight siblings. There are six sons noted: George (13), Samuel (10), William (9), Thomas (8), Charles (4) and your grandfather, Albert (3).
Ancestry has medal index cards for 7 men with the surname Sabell. Your grandfather was 249379 Driver Albert Sabell of the RFA. There is a 35553 George W Sabell of the RAMC, 141346 Gunner William A Sabell of the RFA (later 225781 RGA) and of course Samuel. Nothing noted for a Thomas Sabell or a Charles Sabell that I could see.
My grandfather was also one of five brothers who served during 1914-1918; three in the infantry, one in the RGA (my grandfather) and one in the RFC. John Frederick Nixon was the infantryman who didn't retuirn home and he is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois memorial in France.
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