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Updates for Private Samuel Falls
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17/12/2022 Prior to the war, Samuel was living in Coatbridge, east of Glasgow.
17/12/2022 Samuel’s friend was William Whann. The two men from Cookstown lived next to each other in Coatbridge, worked together, were in the same Orange Lodge, enlisted in the same regiment together and they both fell together on the same day
17/12/2022 Private Samuel Falls is commemorated in Scotland on the Gartsherrie Works Roll of Honour.
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17/12/2022 Private Samuel Falls is also commemorated on the Loyal Orange Lodge 133, Coatbridge District 22 Roll of Honour.
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17/12/2022 Samuel was a member of Loyal Orange Lodge 133, Coatbridge District 22.
17/12/2022 Samuel enlisted in the Scots Guards in Glasgow.
17/12/2022 Private Samuel Falls arrived in France on 25th Fabruary 1915.
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10/02/2019 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 21st September 1918:
10/02/2019 FALLS - In loving memory of my dear son, Private No. 11097 Samuel G Falls, 1st Battalion Scots Guards, killed in action at Loos on the 27th September 1915. Blue Doors, Cookstown.
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21/12/2018 Private Samuel Falls, 1st Battalion Scots Guards, killed in action at Loos on 27th September. His mother, who resides at Blue Doors, Cookstown, received official intimation of his death on Monday last. Private Falls had been working in Scotland at the commencement of the war, hence his joining a Scottish regiment. He was well-known and respected in Cookstown however, where he was brought up with other brothers by his mother, who was left a widow early in life. She is highly respected by all who know her, and the greatest sympathy is felt for her in her sorrow. This is accentuated by the fact that another son, Private Robert Falls, of the Inniskillings, was killed at Mons al little over a year ago.
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21/12/2018 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 4th December 1915: Private Samuel Falls
30/12/2015 Inserted by his mother, brothers and sisters, Blue Doors, Cookstown
30/12/2015 Samuel was born in Tempo in County Fermanagh on 11th August 1889.
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30/12/2015 From the Mid Ulster Mail dated Saturday 30th September 1916:
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30/12/2015 FALLS - In loving and affectionate remembrance of Private Samuel Joseph Falls, 1st Battalion Scots Guards, killed in action at Loos on 27th September 1915. ‘He died for his country, what more could he do?’
30/12/2015 ‘The shock was hard, the blow severe –
30/12/2015 To part with one we loved so dear
30/12/2015 The trial was hard but we will not complain,
30/12/2015 But hope to meet in heaven again.’
30/12/2015 John Falls died on 10th July 1900 in Cookstown. Samuel was 11 years old.
30/12/2015 The 1901 census lists Samuel as age 12 living with the family at house 10 in Killymoon Demesne, Cookstown. Samuel had left school and was working as a spinner in a mill. The census confirms his mother as a 40 year old widow working as a housekeeper.
30/12/2015 Family: John Falls (died 10th July 1900), Margaret Falls, Eliza Falls (born 6th January 1884), Robert Falls (born 6th April 1885), Theresa Falls (born 19th September 1886, died 29th July 1887), Mary Falls (born 25th March 1888), Samuel Joseph Falls (born 11th August 1889), Irwin Falls (born 2nd April 1891), Margaret Falls (born 11th July 1894), George Falls (born 4th March 1896), Isabella Falls (born 26th May 1898), Teresa Falls (born 17th October 1899).
30/12/2015 The 1911 census lists Samuel as age 21 living with the family at house 10 in Killymoon Demesne, Cookstown. Samuel was working as a labourer.
30/12/2015 Private Samuel Falls was serving with the 1st Battalion of the Scots Guards when he was killed in action on the 27th September 1915 during the Battle of Loos.
30/12/2015 Private Samuel Falls has no known grave and is commemorated on Panel 8-9 on Loos Memorial, France.
30/12/2015 Samuel’s elder brother, Private Robert Falls, was killed in action on 26th August 1914.
30/12/2015 Private Falls is also commemorated on Cookstown Cenotaph and St. Luran’s Church of Ireland Roll of Honour, Derryloran, Cookstown.
30/12/2015 Samuel Joseph Falls was the second son of John and Margaret Falls. John Falls married Margaret Keys on 20th March 1883 in Omagh.
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30/12/2015 The CWGC record Private Samuel Falls as the son of John and Margaret Falls, of Blue Doors, Killymoon, Cookstown.
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