Name  : Charles John SAMWAYS. MM.
Rank & Number : Lance Corporal. 10260.
Service  : 1st Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment.
Date of Death : Saturday, 14^th April 1917.
Age  :
Cause of Death : Killed in Action.
Commemorated : Theipval memorial, Somme, France.
Reference : Pier and Face 7 B.

The Theipval Memorial, the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, bears the names of more than 72,000 officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before 20^th March 1918 and who have no known grave.

Charles John Samways was born at Hyde, Frampton and enlisted at Dorchester whilst he was living in Maiden Newton.