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Inscription - "SON OF E. & H WARBURTON

OF UCKFIELD

& BEXHIL SUSSEX

DEEPLY LAMENTED"

Photograph by "Len"

Private Samuel WARBURTON, 204143, 7th Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds,  Flanders France, 26th April 1918, age 36.

Born Buxted, Sussex, son of Ebenezer and Harriet Elizabeth Warburton, of Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex.

1911 Census - 26 Bank Street, Ashford, Kent - Albert Phillip Tanton, head, age 45, single, House Estate Agent, own account, at home, born Charing Heath, Kent; Mary Ann Lavina Tanton, sister, age 43, single, housekeeper, born Charing Heath, Kent; Samuel Warburton, boarder, age 29, single, Gentlemens Outfitter, employer, born Buxted, Sussex; Dorothy Isabel Thompson, boarder, age 18, single, drapers assistant, worker, born Upper Dicker, Sussex; Mary Elizabeth Morris, boarder, (separate), age 65, single, retired, born Regents Park, London.

Enlisted Canterbury, Kent.  Resided Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex.

25th April 1919, Probate - Samuel Warburton of Millholme, 35 Manor Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, Private 3/4th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, died 26th April 1918, in France. Probate London, 25th April to Ebenezer Warburton (the younger) corn merchant & George Arthur Warburton, miller. Effects £1035 17s 11d.

Joint Legatees, brothers - George Warburton / Ebenezer Warburton.

Buried at Crouy British Cemetery, I. E. 20., Crouy-sur-Somme, Somme, France.