Jean Longstaff has submitted the following:-
Samuel was the second child and only son of Stephen Jarrett and his first wife Anne Hopper and was born in Bishop Auckland in 1888 two years before his sister Isabella. Stephen was originally a farm labourer in Hunwick, but after Anne died he married widow Alice Peacock Proud in Auckland St. Andrews in 1907 and became a wholesale fruit merchant. Samuel joined him in the business and lived with his father and step mother in Dene Hall, Bishop Auckland, and at some time served for four years as a 2nd Lieutenant in 6th Battalion Durham Light Infantry.
March 1913 saw Samuel arriving in Canada making for a new life as a farmer in Saskatoon. But eighteen months later, in September 1914, he became one of the 32,000 men who made their way to Valcartier to enlist in the Canadian Expeditionary Force where he became Private 21837 of the 11th Battalion. His occupation at this time was as a postal clerk in Regina and he gave as his next of kin Miss Townsend, Ryton House, West Auckland.
Sailing for England only days later, by Christmas Samuel was a Sergeant, and transferred to the 4th Battalion was in France by April. He was elected to attend Cadet School with a view to obtaining a commission in the CEF, but instead he received a commission into the Imperial Army as a 2nd Lieutenant in 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry and was discharged from the CEF at Shorncliffe on 23rd October 1915.
The 2nd Battalion DLI was part of the 18th Brigade, 6th Division, XIV Corps, and the village of Guedecourt was used as their jumping-off point for the Battle for Le Transloy in October 1916, and it was here Samuel Fox Armitage Jarrett was wounded and later died.
Samuel Fox Armitage Jarrett is remembered in Bishop Auckland on B140.01 , B140.05 (S.A. Jarrett) B140.12 and B140.27 page 123 and at South Church on S144.01 and S144.05
He is not remembered in the DLI Book of Remembrance in Durham Cathedral.
He is remembered in Canada on their Virtual War Memorial and in their Book of Remembrance, and on the War Memorial in St. Paul’s Cathedral, Regina, Saskatchewan.
Canadian Book of Remembrance
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
The CWGC entry for 2nd Lieutenant Jarrett
