Samuel was born in Newton, Derbyshire in 1880 but later moved to Nottingham with his family. He worked as a miner and enlisted on 25th September 1914 with an earlier number of 2847 and served with the 7th Battalion prior to the outbreak of WW1.  He landed in France on 28th February 1915 and served with A Company.

Samuel was awarded the Military Medal (London Gazette 9.11.1916) which stated he had been with the Battalion since it came to France in February 1915.  As a stretcher bearer he had shown consistent reliability and, on several occasions, has displayed great gallantry and coolness in encouraging and tending men in the open under fire at Hooge on 30th July 1915 and Hohenzollern Redoubt on 13th October 1915. 

On one occasion he went ‘over the top’ with eight men. Six were killed outright and the seventh died of wounds.

Samuel was honourably discharged having been disabled from mustard gas on 12th December 1917.  After discharge he went back to working as a miner. 

In 1939 he was living in Westville Street, Nottingham and was working as a carter in the hay and corn trade. He then became a publican in 1942, when he ran the Pig of Lead (Via Gellia Inn) Via Gellia, Cromford, Derbyshire.  He died of natural causes in 1946.