255353 L/Sgt. Samuel Robert Stinson British Army 1st Btn. Irish Guards from:Skreen, Sligo Samuel Stinson was born on the 3rd of April 1887 in Skreen, Sligo, Ireland.
His father, also Samuel, was in the Royal Irish Constabulary which Samuel Robert joined on the 2nd of October 1905.
On 15th of March 1909 he enlisted in the Irish Guards and was at Chelsea Barracks, London.
He married on 29th of July 1914 and embarked for the Western Front on 13th of August 1914.
The family received a card dated 13th of April 1915 stating that Samuel was a prisoner of war in Wittenberg, Germany. Further correspondence was received from Wittenberg dated 5th of June 1915 and then from Scheveningen, Holland dated 28th of April 1918.
After the war Samuel re-enlisted in the Royal Irish Constabulary and on partition of Ireland in the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
When WW2 broke out he re-enlisted in the British Army and later worked at the War Office.
Samuel Robert Stinson died on 16th of March 1949 and is buried in the Brigade of Guards section of Brompton Cemetery, London.
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