Private Samuel George Churchill
Royal Army Medical Corps
(Attached to the 2nd Battalion, Royal
Welsh Fusiliers at the time of his death)
19/08/1916
1914 Star
NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post
of Monday 28 August 1916
Roll of Honour. Still another Jerseyman
has given his life for his King and Country. News was
received yesterday by Mr & Mrs Joseph Churchill
of 5 Eden Place, Ann Street, that their second son Private
S Churchill of the Royal Army Medical Corps had been
killed in action in France on 19 August, while engaged
in ambulance work in the sector facing High Wood. Private
Churchill, who was 37, had served in the Army for 17
years and in the South African War he had won both the
King and Queen's Medals. When war broke out he was serving
in India and he was immediately granted service with
the Expeditionary Force and was attached to the 2nd
Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers. The news of Private
Churchill having made the supreme sacrifice was conveyed
to his parents by Captain Dunn, one of the officers
of the Royal Army Medical Corps, who stated that it
was while getting wounded men from the trenches that
he was struck by a shell, which caused his death. He
speaks of Private Churchill's high qualities as a soldier
and of his constant devotion to duty. He had recently
been offered promotion but refused it as he did not
wish to be separated from the men with whom he had been
serving for so long. The parents also received a letter
from Sergeant Roberts of the detachment to which their
son was attached, stating that in his death the detachment
and corps had suffered a very real loss. He knew his
duties and was always eager to carry them out and that
personally he felt he had lost a good comrade who could
always be relied upon in a time of crisis. To the bereaved
parents and all members of the sorrowing family we would
tender our sincere condolences.
