Name: | Samuel Martin |
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Nationality: | United Kingdom |
Rank: | Corporal |
Regiment/Service: | Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers |
Unit Text: | 1st Bn. |
Age: | 27 |
Born: | Londonderry (Co.?) |
Residence: | Co. Tyrone |
Date of Death: | 24/04/1942 |
Service No: | 6977570 |
Casualty Type: | Commonwealth War Dead. |
Grave/Memorial Ref: | Face 11. |
Memorial: | Rangoon Memorial, Myanmar, (Burma). |
Additional information: | Born 1915, son of Samuel and Sarah Martin, Knockloughrim. Samuel left school at 14, when the family lived at Megargy. He hired to Eakin’s of Magherafelt for 3 years as a farm labour. Joined the army in 1932, aged 18. Brother of Mary, Annie, Sadie, Dorothy, Bobbie and Willie. |