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Pte. Samuel John Culverhouse
British Army Royal Army Service Corps
from:48 Bond Street, Trowbridge, Wiltshire.
(d.30th March 1919)
Samuel John Culverhouse, born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire in 1879.
Died in France, on 30th March 1919, of illness, having survived the war.
His wife, Elizabeth, placed the following in the local newspaper:
"We pictured him safe returning, we longed to grasp his hand
But God has postponed our meeting, it will be in a better land.
If we could have raised his dying head and heard his last farewell, the grief would not have been so hard, for those who loved him so well."
Samuel is buried at Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension.
His name can be found on the war memorial in The Peoples Park, Trowbridge, Wiltshire.