Lance-Corporal Samuel Herbert Hutchings
11th Company, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
07/04/1917
Third son of the late Mr & Mrs G Hutchings formerly
of Apsley Road, St Helier, Jersey. Husband of Marguerite
Hutchings (nee Le Breuilly) of 15 Winchester Street,
St Helier, Jersey
Killed in action, aged 33 years.
Notice of Death appears in Jersey Evening
Post of Tuesday 1 May 1917 & Wednesday 2 May 1917
NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post
of Tuesday 1 May 1917
Roll of Honour. Still another name has
to be added to the long list of Jerseymen who have given
up their lives for their King and Country, that of Lance
Corporal Samuel (Sam) Herbert Hutchings of the Machine
Gun Corps, who was killed on 10 April last somewhere
in France. The deceased, who was in his 34th year, was
married and was the third son of Mrs G Hutchings late
of Apsley Road. The sad news was conveyed to the widow
by Corporal John R Gregor of the deceased's Company,
who after explaining in his letter how the death occurred
says "the whole of the section sends their deepest
sympathy to you and your little son. We all know it
will be a great blow to you as it has been a severe
one to his mates. He was a very brave man and had he
come through all right no doubt he would have been the
first man to have been recommended for coolness under
heavy shellfire". We offer our sincere sympathy
to the widow and other members of the family.
