PRYME S. A.
Samuel Alma Prime*
Private 32102
19th Bn. Welsh Regiment
Samuel Alma Pryme died on 11th July 1916, aged 30 years, and was remembered on the THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France.
He was born on 11th August 1886 on Quarry Yard, Sutton, to parents Samuel Alma and Hannah Pryme. Samuel Alma Prime Snr. was a Coal Miner, and a native of Sutton-in-Ashfield, who married Hannah Huskinson in 1877. At the time of the 1901 census the family were living in Skegby.
His younger brother, John Edward Pryme, is also remembered on Sutton's Memorial.
Notts Free Press - Sutton's Roll of Honour - 10th January 1919
Pryme, Private Samuel Alma,
From
‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 –
The Welsh Regiment’
PRIME Alma. Born Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts, enlisted Sutton-in-Ashfield. 19th Bn., Welsh Regt., Private 32102 , Died of wounds, France & Flanders, 11th July 1916. Formerly 31661 R. W. FUS.
Research by Heather Faulkes
* Both cwgc.org and Soldiers Died have the PRIME spelling. The PRIME and PRYME
spellings are both used in the parish registers.
