Samuel Whitfield
Date of birth: c1880
Date of death: 22.10.1917
Area: Knottingley
Regiment: Cheshire
Family information: Husband of Mary Evelyn Whitfield nee Ford
Rank: Sergeant
Service number: 20389
War Service
Sam Whitfield was in the 16th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment when he died aged 37 on 22nd October 1917. He was commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial panel 61 to 63 as he has no known grave.
Family Life
Samuel was born c1880. He was the son of Thomas Whitfield and his wife Charlotte nee Roley. They had married in the first quarter of 1865 and their marriage was registered at Bramham.
Samuel Whitfield married Mary Evelyn Ford in the fourth quarter of 1908 and this was registered at Hunslet.
In the 1911 census he is shown to be living at Luddenden, Halifax with his wife and two children.
Tyne Cot Memorial