Many images on this page are courtesy of Tony Gore
Samuels children
Samuel Henry Ruff Ogden
Gladys Mary Ogden
His birth was recorded in Q4 1888.
Samuel was the tenth of ten children.
*On the 1911 census his parents are recorded as having had eleven live births, 6 six living and 5 not. I can only find 4 of those 5.
*Emily's sister Sue married Samuel's 1st cousin William Lillford
*Note that the date of 8.2.20 and his age of 22 are a mismatch. It looks all entries in red were all added at his death.
Tony Gore recalls "My grandmother told me that the night my grandfather died he was clearing the railway line of unexploded butterfly bombs when an eighteen year soldier on leave tripped over one and blew them both up. I don’t think I have seen that written anywhere."
Background info.
End of article missing.
There had been an early morning bombing
raid on the day Samuel was killed. The Germans had used a new insidious
anti-personnel device called a butterfly bomb.
Link to GrimsbyLive article.
Well over a year after the attack the Daily Mirror published this article.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/29514
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