Quinn Samuel Pte 4460942
Personnel Entry
Name Quinn Samuel
Army number 4460942
Rank Private.
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards.
Date of birth Not yet known.
Age (At the time of his death). Not yet known.
Unit Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, no enlistment date as yet, but his Regimental Number suggests late 1939. Posted to the ? Battalion. Served with the B.E.F. in Northern France? Transferred to the Black Watch 16/7/1940, and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish. Served Iceland? Served Normandy. Wounded. Posted to the ? Battalion Black Watch on the disbandment of the Brigade. Returned to the UK. Relegated to the Class Z Army Reserve 4/8/46.
Company/Battery Company not yet known.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet known.
Task or role Not known, but probably Rifleman.
Joined Brigade 16/7/1940.
Promotions None known.
Wounded Yes – reported wounded North West Europe but exact date not recorded.
Prisoner of War Not so far as is known.
Died/Killed in action Date of death not yet known.
Home address 9, Back Ash Mount, Clough Fold, Rossendale, Lancs.
Source table 1TS
