Lesser Samuels

Major Lesser Joseph Samuels was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in Paddington, the son of David and Rachael Evelyn Samuels (née Levison), both of Birmingham. A travelling jeweller, Samuels served for eight years in the Middlesex Hussars before resigning in 1913. He rejoined after the outbreak of war as a trooper in King Edward's Horse, and in a few weeks obtained a commission in the Royal Field Artillery.The Times (41610), P. 5: "Fallen Officers". 16 October 1917. 
Samuels went to the Western Front in July 1915. Aged 29, he died on 29 September 1917, during the Third Battle of Ypres, while serving with "A" Battery, 83rd Brigade. His death came just days after he had returned from leave in London. A younger brother, George, had died in 1916 while a second lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Tyne Cot Memorial.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Samuels, Lesser Joseph, cwgc.org. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
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Category:British people of Jewish descent
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Category:Tyne Cot Memorial
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