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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Byram Samuel
|Army number=1525789.
|Rank=Gunner.
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
|Date of birth=Not yet ascertained.
|Age=(At the time of his death). Not yet known.
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Artillery 15/1/1940. Underwent Basic Training. Posted to 219th Battery. Posted to 332
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|Prisoner of War=
|Died/Killed in action=.
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	[[File:Samuel_Byram_Archer_tank-1.jpg\|800px\|thumb\|centre\|Lance Bombardier Byram with his SPG]]		[[File:Samuel_Byram_Archer_tank-1.jpg\|800px\|thumb\|centre\|Lance Bombardier Byram with his SPG]]
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		+	To read the Wikipedia article on this weapon system - with links to other sources of information - please click here [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer_(tank_destroyer)] It should be noted that the term "tank destroyer" is American terminology, whereas the British Army used the title "self-propelled gun, or anti-tank gun". Anti-Tank Regiments were often equipped with a mixture of towed and self-propelled weapons.

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	\|Image Title=Lance Bombardier Samuel Byram		\|Image Title=Lance Bombardier Samuel Byram
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		+	The following photograph shows Lance Bombardier Byram posing next to his Archer Self-propelled Anti-Tank Gun, which was delivered to the Battery on 13/11/1944 by 259 Corps Delivery Squadron, Royal Armoured Corps. Only 655 of this type of vehicle were manufactured, based on the Valentine Tank chassis, and armed with the 17 pounder gun. This example is named after L/Bdr Byram's home town.
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		+	[[File:Samuel_Byram_Archer_tank-1.jpg\|800px\|thumb\|centre\|Lance Bombardier Byram with his SPG]]

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 |Died/Killed in action=Died of Cancer 29/1/1995.
 |Home address=Father Tom Byram.  Lived Castleford, West Yorkshire.
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 |Image Title=Lance Bombardier Samuel Byram
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 |Died/Killed in action=Died of Cancer 29/1/1995.
 |Home address=Father Tom Byram.  Lived Castleford, West Yorkshire.
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 |Rank=Gunner.
 |Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
-|Date of birth=Not yet ascertained.
+|Date of birth=24/10/1919.
-|Age=(At the time of his death).  Not yet known.
+|Age=(At the time of his death).  75.
 |Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Artillery 15/1/1940.  Underwent Basic Training.  Posted to 219th Battery, 55th Anti-Tank Regiment.  Posted to 332 Anti-Tank Battery, 55th Anti-Tank Regiment on probably 7th July 1943.  332 Battery then re-designated 220 Battery, 55th Anti-Tank Regiment.  Served Normandy.  Posted to Y List. Evacuated to the UK for hospital treatment after wounding.  Returned to 220 Battery in Normandy 25/7/1944.  Returned to the UK.  Demobilised - date not yet known.
 |Company/Battery=219 Battery, 332 Battery, 220 Battery.
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 |Wounded=Yes - wounded in the back by shrapnel in Normandy 17/6/1944.  Treated in hospital in the UK.
 |Prisoner of War=No.
-|Died/Killed in action=Date of death not yet known.
+|Died/Killed in action=Died of Cancer 29/1/1995.
-|Home address=No further family details as yet.
+|Home address=Father Tom Byram.  Lived Castleford, West Yorkshire.
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