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Pte Samuel Stehen Brocklehurst Regt # 919858
[Donated by Frank Connors]

Samuel Stephen Brocklehurst was born in St.John's on 26 December 1885, the fifth son of Charles and Mary Ann Brocklehurst. Sam was a shoemaker according to the 1904 census and later that year moved to Montreal where he worked as a Wharehouse Clerk. He enlisted in the Great War, signing up on 16th August 1916 in the CEF and was described on his Attestation Paper as having dark complexion, blue eyes and dark brown hair, standing 5 ft 8 in and having a chest size of 36 in. Sam married Mary T Cunningham and died at Montreal in 1961. Samuel was the brother of John Thomas Brocklehurst, Edward Stanislaus Brocklehurst and George Augustus Brocklehurst. The brothers also had a first-cousin, George Joseph Brocklehurst, born in May 1879 at Carbonear, who enlisted at Montreal in the CEF on 4 October 1916 ( their cousin George also had a brother-in-law, Leonard P Burke, who married his sister Adelaide, and who was Lt.Col. in the First Nfld Regiment).

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