No. A424274. 6th Battalion Canadian Light Trench Mortar Battery who died on 18th February 1918 aged 23.

Samuel is buried in Thelus Military Cemetery.

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Jarold was born Hasketon, 1894, son of Thomas and Eva King, Burg Road, Hasketon.

He died in a raid on German trenches south-east of Avion.

Before the war he was at school prior to emigrating to Canada.

Personal details

Parents were Thomas King [B. c1851 Dallinghoo], and Eva King nee Burrows [B. c1861, Dallinghoo].   Samuel Jarrold was the youngest of two children his elder sister (Kate) Emily (was born 1892.) Thomas was a farmer and the family lived at Gull Farm Hasketon. In 1911 Samuel is listed as at School. He appears to have emigrated to Canada sometime after that. He was listed in the Woodbridge Reporter and Gazette in 30th Jan 1919 as an ‘old boy’ of Woodbridge School.

According to his Canadian Service records his sister (Kate) Emily King was named as his next of kin. His father Thomas received his medals and mother Eva a Memorial cross.  Sadly it appears Emily died 20th April 1918, just two months after Samuel.

War service.

Jarrold’s Canadian war records indicate he enlisted with the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary force on February 12th 1915 at Portage la Prairie in Manitoba, Canada.  He gives his next of kin as his sister Emily King.

He arrived in England as a member of the Canadian Army on September 13, 1915 and became a member of the 6th Battalion Canadian Light trench mortar Battery, part of the 2nd infantry brigade, 2nd Canadian division.  The Battery was formed in July 1916.

His death on 18th February 1918 is reported in the Canadian Circumstances of Death Registers, First World War, as “Killed in Action”, in “Support in raid south-east of Avion”.  (Avion is a small industrial town just outside Lens and to the north of Vimy Ridge, which the Canadian Army had captured in April 1917).