Oldham Historical Research Group

'THE GREAT WAR',     'THE WAR TO END WAR',     'WORLD WAR 1'
'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
- Only the monstrous anger of the guns.'
                                                                                                  from 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' by Wilfred Owen

1914 - 1918

St. Paul's Methodist Church, Shaw
Memorial Autograph Book

St Paul's Methodist church WW1 Memorial Autograph Book - Lance Cpl. Samuel Rhodes, 21235

Lance Cpl. Samuel Rhodes, 21235
Grenadier Guards, 2nd Battalion
Enlisted December 1914
Wounded at Loos 1915
Wounded at Ginchy 1916
Killed 9th October 1917, Paschendaele
Age 19

Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Rhodes
The youngest of 10 children, on the 1911 census Samuel was living with his parents, and four elder siblings on Glebe Street, in Shaw.

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Contributed by : Gillian Ashworth for St. Paul's Methodist Church, Shaw
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