The Masters and Pellowe Family Tree

Samuel DOUBLEDAYAge: 88 years18901979

Name
Samuel DOUBLEDAY
Birth 16 June 1890
Death of a wifeBertha KENYON
7 October 1961 (Age 71 years)
Cremation of a wifeBertha KENYON
October 1961 (Age 71 years)
UID
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Death 11 May 1979 (Age 88 years)
Cremation May 1979 (Age 88 years)
Death

from Bronchopneumonia, general thrombosis & arterioschlerosis, Y

Note

Sam Doubleday served as a Soldier in the first World War and was badly w ounded, losing a leg. He was a founder member of the Oldham Branch, Bri tish Limbless Ex Servicemen Association (BLESA) and actively involved w ith the Association all his life. He was National President of the Asso ciation 1935 to 1936 and was a representative and speaker at a protest a ssembly in London, to draw Parliaments attention to the inadequate valu e of the war pension in 1952.

After the death of his first wife in 1961, he married again to Edith Me llor. He was living at 6 Lynmouth Avenue, Oldham until becoming ill and w ent into Oldham General Hospital, where he died. He was cremated in Hol linwood Cemetary