230786 Pte. Samuel Mundy British Army 8th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment from:Andover, Hampshire (d.9th Sep 1918) Samuel Mundy was born at Shipton, Hampshire in 1899. Samuel served in the 8th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment and was killed in action on 9th of September 1918, 336 days after Samuel's brother, Walter, who died in action on 10 October 1917.
At enlistment at Andover, Hampshire, Walter went with his younger brother, Samuel, to enlist in the British Army. In the queue at the enlistment table, Walter deliberately stood directly in front of his younger brother for processing, giving all his details for the enlistment form. Walter's service number was 22384 and Samuel's was the number directly after ie. 22385. It is interesting to note that the brothers were mobilsed into different regiments, Walter in the Hampshire Regiment and Samuel in the Gloucestershire Regiment.
Samuel fought in The Battles of the Somme, 1916; operations on the Ancre, 1917; the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, 1917; flanking attacks in Battle of Arras (Bullecourt and Lagnicourt), 1917; Third Battles of Ypres, 1917; First Battles of the Somme, 1918; the advance in Flanders, 1918 and at Ypres and Cambrai, at Polygon Wood and the Menin Road, at Passchendaele and at Saint Quentin.
He fought under General Sir William Birdwood, Commander of the Fifth Army.
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