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Samuel Hood
Service Number:
2748
14652
Regiment & Unit/Battalion
4th North Staffordshire Regiment
(The Prince Of Wales)
Date of Death
17th May 1934 [aged 67]
Buried or commemorated at
Broadwas Roll of Honour
Country of Service
United Kingdom
Additional Info
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin & Martha Hood
Family history
Edwin Hood married, Martha Mycock, 3rd qtr., 1865, in Stone Staffordshire. Their son Samuel Arthur Hood was born,
2nd qtr., 1867
in Stone Staffordshire. In the 1881 census the family were living in Oulton Road, Stone, Staffordshire.
Samuel was the eldest and he had two brothers and a sister, William Hood, born 1869; Edward Hood, born 1873;
and Frances Hood, born 1875, there was also their cousin, Lilian Malkin staying with them, born 1864.
Samuel Arthur Hood married, Eleanor Jane Dunn, 3rd November 1894, at Whittington.
1901 census
Samuel Arthur Hood - Married - aged 34 - b. 1867, Stone, Staffordshire - Occupation, Soldier.
Eleanor Jane Hood - Married - aged 28 - b. 1873, Wellington, Shropshire.
Grace Eileen Hood - Daughter - aged 5 - b. 1896, Dublin, Ireland.
Edwin John Hood - Son - aged 3 - b. 1898, Lichfield, Staffordshire.
Address: 15, King Street, Hanley, Stoke upon Trent, Staffordshire, England
When the family moved to Broadwas Samuel was the landlord of The Royal Oak
1911 Census
Samuel Arthur Hood - Head - aged 44 - b. 1867, Stone, Staffordshire - Occupation, Licensed Victualer [Army Pensioner]
Eleanor Jane Hood - Married - aged 39 - b. 1873, Wellington, Shropshire. [6 children, 4 alive, 2 died]
Grace Eileen Hood - Daughter - aged 15 - b. 1896, Dublin, Ireland. [Single, at School]
Edwin John Hood - Son - aged 13 - b. 1898, Whitington, Lichfield, Staffordshire.[Single, at School]
Dorothy Hood -
Daughter - aged 7 - b. 1904, Whitington, Lichfield, Staffordshire. [at School]
Edna May Hood - Daughter - aged 3 - b. 1908, Tamworth, Staffordshire.
Army Records-Samuel Arthur Hood
The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's)
First World War
Both regular battalions remained in the same theatre throughout the First World War (1914-18) - 1st Battalion on
the Western Front and 2nd Battalion in India. The regiment also raised 16 Reserve, Territorial and New Army battalions
during the conflict. Of these, 7th Battalion was sent to Gallipoli in 1915, while the 2/5th helped suppress the Easter
Rising in 1916. Other battalions served in Palestine and on the Western Front, fighting in many battles, including
Neuve Chapelle (1915), Loos (1915), the Somme (1916), Passchendaele (1917) and Amiens (1918)
4th (Extra Reserve) Battalionwas based in Lichfield when war broke out in August 1914.
They were mobilised and moved to Guernsey to take over the garrison from a regular unit. They moved to Marske in
October 1916 and by March 1917 was at Saltburn, North Yorkshire. In June 1917 they moved to Westerner and joined
200th Brigade, 67th Division. On the 7th of October they left the Division and proceede to France, landing at Le Havre
to join 167th Brigade, 56th (London) Division. On the 15th of November they transferred to 106th Brigade, 35th Division.
On the 3rd of February 1918 they transferred to 105th Brigade, still with 35th Division. In 1918 they fought in the
First Battle of Bapaume, and the Final Advance in Flanders including The Battle of Courtrai and The action of Tieghem.
They crossed the River Scheldt near Berchem on the 9th of November and by the Armistice they had entered Grammont.
They moved back to Eperlecques and many of the miners were demobilised in December. In January 1919, units of the
Division were sent to Calais to quell rioting in the transit camps. The last of the Division were demobilised in April 1919.
1st Battalion North Staffordshire (Prince of Wales’s) Regiment near Cassel, 12 September 1917.
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