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Private Samuel ROLFE, L/6721, 1st  Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death presumed on or after,  28th October 1914.

Born Woolwich, Kent, son of **Israel & Emily Rolfe.  ** died June 1894, Woolwich Registration District age 56.

1901 Census - 1 Francis Street, Plumstead, Kent - Thomas Leggett, head, married age 56, fishmongers labourer, worker, born Plumstead, Kent; Emily Leggett, wife, married, age 47, born Stowmarket, Suffolk; Samuel Rolfe, stepson, single, age 18, labourer general, worker, born Woolwich, Kent; Ernest Rolfe, stepson, single, age 15, labourer general, worker, born Plumstead, Kent; Beatrice Rolfe, step daughter, single, age 12,  born Plumstead, Kent.

10th April 1909, Holy Trinity, Woolwich, Greenwich, Samuel Rolfe, age 26, bachelor, labourer, 6 Globe Lane, father Israel Rolfe, deceased, painter, married  *Mary Elizabeth Allen, age 25, spinster, factory hand, 6 Globe Lane, father William Houghton Allen, waterman. * born 27th July 1883.

Children - Emily Eliza Rolfe, born 28th August 1910;

1911 Census - 31 Rope Yard Rails, Woolwich SE - Samuel Rolfe, head, age 28, married, general labourer, Government, Royal Arsenal, worker, born Woolwich, Kent; Mary Elizabeth Rolfe, wife, age 26, married 2 years, 1 child, still alive, born Woolwich, Kent; Emily Eliza Rolfe, daughter, age 6 months, born Woolwich, Kent.

Children - William Houghton Rolfe, born 24th December 1911; Frances Ann Rolfe, born 1st August 1913.

Enlisted Maidstone, Kent. 

15th August 1914, posted BEF; 28th October 1914, reported missing.

 Commemorated at Le Touret Memorial, Panel 30 and 31, France.