King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 9th Battalion, Service no. 19843
Died of wounds 19th September 1920, aged 23
Story
Sam was born in 1897 in Handsworth, Sheffield. His parents William Timson and Emma Torr were from Dronfield, North-East Derbyshire, but the family moved to 80 Ings Lane, Castleford, where Sam was working in a colliery, as a door-minder, which was often a job for young children, working in complete darkness, waiting and listening for the approach of miners to let them through. Sam was wounded during the War, but returned to coal mining and married Hilda Hartley in Kippax after the War.
Sam’s health declined, and he died in hospital from a gunshot wound to the chest which had caused gangrene of the lung and septic broncho-pneumonia.
Kippax Roll of Honour 