Samuel enlisted on 1st November 1915, he was 35 years and 82 days old, a clerk by trade, and was living at 207 Carlton Vale, West Kilburn, London at the time. He entered the war in France on 9th October 1916 but was wounded and sent home on 14th November. He was admitted into Bethnal Green Military Hospital, Cambridge Road from 15th November 1916 to 12th December 1916 due to a gun shot wound in this buttocks. He then went to convalesce at the Convalescent Hospital in Eastbourne until 9th January 1917. Samuel was then posted to serve on the Eastern Front and was on board the Hired Transport "Transylvania", when it was proceeding to Egypt with reinforcements, and was sunk by a torpedo by the German U-boat U-63 off Cape Vado, a few kilometres south of Savona. He was the son of Eliza Sarah Reynolds of the same address as above.