Charles Allen Du Val

Samuel William Worley 1881-1918

Samuel William Worley was born in 1881 at Iver in Buckinghamshire, the son of Samuel Worley and his wife nee Mary Ann Stapps. He was baptised there on 9 October 1881.

In 1914 he married Harriet Rebecca Brient at Kingston-on-Thames.
They lived at Worcester Park in Surrey.

He served in the Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) during the First World War as private soldier No. 53436.

By 1918 he had been transferred as No. 82633 to the 35th Company Labour Corps, formed from wounded soldiers not fit enough to be sent back to the front line. Their hazardous duties included repairing roads and taking equipment to the front. Many were killed by enemy action.

Samuel Worley had probably been wounded, and sent to the Labour Corps with another army service number in the usual way. Unfortunately his war records do not appear to have survived the bombing of their store in 1940.

He died on 9 July 1918 in France, and was buried in a grave in the Longuenesse Commonwealth War Cemetery near St. Omer in the Pas-de-Calais, France.

His name is also commemorated on at the church of St John the Baptist at Malden in Surrey.

The photographs of the gravestone are included by kind permission of The War Graves Photographic Project, who hold the copyright.
Samuel William Worley is also commemorated on the Buckinghamshire Remembers website http://www.buckinghamshireremembers.org.uk/casualties.htm