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Sumption, Samuel

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Cemetery: Helles Memorial

Country: Turkey

Area: Gallipoli

Rank: Corporal

Force: Army

Official Number: 299

Unit: "C" Sqdn. Dorset Yeomanry (Queen's Own)

Country of Service: British

Details: (Soldier, buried at sea) 27-Aug-1915 Aged 28 Son of Fred and the late Jane Sumption; husband of Mabel Alice Keeler Sumption, of 343, Marlboro Road, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. Was Scout Master of the Wimborne Boy Scouts (Wimborne, Dorset, England) and organized the first troop of Boy Scouts in Egypt (at Cairo) for which he received commendation from Sir Robert Baden-Powell. Panel 17 and 18.

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Helles Memorial - Sumption, Samuel

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