Corporal SAMUEL SUMPTION
Service Number: 299
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Dorset Yeomanry (Queen's Own)
"C" Sqdn.
Date of Death
Died 27 August 1915
Age 28 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of Fred and the late Jane Sumption; husband of Mabel Alice Keeler Sumption, of 343, Marlboro Road, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. Was Scout Master of the Wimborne Boy Scouts (Wimborne, Dorset, England) and organized the first troop of Boy Scouts in Egypt (at Cairo) for which he received commendation from Sir Robert Baden-Powell.
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