Samuel's Story.
Birkenhead News 19 May 1917THE LATE PTE. S. CROSBY
Mrs. Crosby, of No. 10, Abbey Street, Birkenhead – who formerly lived in Myrtle Street, off Brassey Street – has received the intelligence that her son Private Samuel Crosby, ¼ Cheshire Regt., has died of shrapnel wounds received on the morning of March 27th, in Palestine. The deceased went out to Egypt with the 4th Cheshires, and never had any home leave. A second-lieutenant of the deceased private’s company writing to Mrs. Crosby, says: “I have known your son for nearly two years, and have always looked upon him as one of the best men I had in my platoon. His cheery face and good-natured manner will, I know, be sadly missed by all the officers and men who knew him.”
The above newspaper article reports Samuel’s death as the 27th March when in fact it is the 29th March as recorded on the Commonwealth War Graves database.