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{{Personnel
|id=3018
|Surname and forenames=Roberts Samuel
|Army number=4457145
|Rank=Pte
|Age=0
|Unit=11 DLI Iceland, Kings Regt 1/9/44
|Source table=11DLI
}}

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 |Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date as yet but probably late 1939.  Underwent Basic Training at the Primary Training Centre.  Posted to the 11th Battalion DLI.  Served in Northern France with the B.E.F>  Served Iceland.  Served Normandy?  Transferred to the Kings Regiment 1/9/44 on the disbanding of the Brigade.  Docs to Preston 13/10/44.  Enlistment Book entry unable to be traced in the King's Regiment books.
 |Joined Brigade=Exact date not yet known.
-|Died/Killed in action=Killed in a mining accident at the East Pit, Horden, on 13/12/1950.
+|Died/Killed in action=Killed in a mining accident at the East Pit, Horden, on 13/12/1950. Aged 31 (32?), Engineman, he was an engineman employed to draw tubs of coal from the face; he was killed instantly when he was crushed between the loco and closed steel doors he was trying to open.  (We are grateful to the Durham Mining Museum for the additional information).
 |Home address=Lived at 19, Woodlands Avenue, Horden, County Durham.
 |Source table=11DLI

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 |Wounded=Not as far as is known.
 |Prisoner of War=Not as far as is known.
-|Image Name=File:Roberts_Samuel_1941.png
+|Image Name=Roberts_Samuel_1941.png
 |Image Title=Private Sam Roberts.
 }}

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 |Wounded=Not as far as is known.
 |Prisoner of War=Not as far as is known.
 }}

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 |Surname and forenames=Roberts Samuel
 |Army number=4457145
-|Rank=Pte
+|Rank=Private.
-|Date of birth=Not yet known.
+|Date of birth=7/4/1918.
-|Age=0
+|Age=32 at the time of his death.
-|Unit=Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date, Posted 11th Bn.  Served Iceland.  Served Normandy?  Trf Kings Regiment 1/9/44, Docs to Preston 13/10/44.  Enlistment Book entry unable to be traced.
+|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date as yet but probably late 1939.  Underwent Basic Training at the Primary Training Centre.  Posted to the 11th Battalion DLI.  Served in Northern France with the B.E.F>  Served Iceland.  Served Normandy?  Transferred to the Kings Regiment 1/9/44 on the disbanding of the Brigade.  Docs to Preston 13/10/44.  Enlistment Book entry unable to be traced in the King's Regiment books.
 |Joined Brigade=Exact date not yet known.
-|Died/Killed in action=Date of death not yet known.
+|Died/Killed in action=Killed in a mining accident at the East Pit, Horden, on 13/12/1950.
-|Home address=No family information as yet.
+|Home address=Lived at 19, Woodlands Avenue, Horden, County Durham.
 |Source table=11DLI
 }}

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 |Rank=Pte
 |Age=0
-|Unit=11 DLI Iceland, Kings Regt 1/9/44
+|Unit=Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date, Posted 11th Bn, Iceland, Trf Kings Regiment 1/9/44, Docs to Preston 13/10/44,
 |Source table=11DLI
 }}