Every Name a Story

S. Main 1919
Rank : Able Seaman

Hirst

Sampson  Main

Every Name a Story

In St. John’s Churchyard is the Commonwealth War Grave with a private headstone of Tyneside Z/9065 Able Seaman Sampson Main, serving on H.M.S. Wessex  with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve who died 06/03/1919.

The headstone reads:

In
Loving
Memory of
Sampson
Beloved son of
Sampson and
Isabella Main,
Died at Granton
Naval Hospital
Edinburgh, March 6th
1919, aged
28 years.

Margaret Allison reports that in 1911 his address was 40 Rosalind Street, Ashington.

Sampson Main is remembered at Ashington on A17.01 (A17.27) and A17.43 and in our List of Ships’ Crews.

First Name: Sampson

Last Name: Main

Service Number: Tyneside Z/9065

Which War: First World War 1914-18

Died: 06/03/1919

Age: 28

Rank: Able Seaman

Regiment: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Unit/Ship: H.M.S. Wessex

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