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Roll of Honour:Samuel Hannaford
SAMUEL HANNAFORD
1885 - 1936
Samuel was born in December 1885, the second son of Herbert H Hannaford and Martha Lambshead. He had an elder brother John, and two sisters Marion and Nancy. The family lived at Southcombe Farm in Widecombe.
Samuel attended Widecombe School and later Truro College.
In 1909 Samuel emigrated to Australia settling in the area north of Brisbane in Queensland. He worked on various farms in this area as a farm labourer.
In March 1915, following the outbreak of the Great War Samuel volunteered for service with the Australian Imperial Force (AIF). He sailed for Europe in June 1915 arriving in Egypt in August 1915. He fought and was wounded whilst serving with the 49th Battalion of the AIF on the Western Front. He was hospitalised in the UK for a period in 1917. When he recovered, he returned to duties in France.
Samuel returned to the UK in 1919 with his Battalion, and left for Australia in March, he was demobbed in August 1919.
He was eligible for the resettlement programme instituted by the Australian Government which provided returning soldiers with land and materials to set up home in undeveloped areas. Samuel and the scheme he worked on were unsuccessful and he adopted a “nomadic” existence after this failed attempt at resettlement.
He was killed in an accident on the railways in 1936, and is buried in Witta Cemetery in Queensland Australia.
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