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2nd Lt. Samuel Oakes
British Army Z Special Coy. Royal Engineers
(d.6th May 1917)
Samuel Oakes served with Z Company of the Royal Engineers, a specialist section dealing with chemical weapons. For a fuller picture of Z company activities on the night of 5th/6th May 1917, this page about L/Cpl Grey (also of "Z" Coy), which explains how Oakes's death, and the death of his comrades, came about.
Samuel was 21 when he was killed in action. He was buried, along comrades who also fell, at Beaulencourt British Cemetery, Ligny-Thilloy, France.