Private Samuel Thomas Gammon

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Samuel Thomas Gammon of George Bank, Mumbles, was married to Gladys and had three sons, Tom, Dick and Fred. He served as Private 29149, A Company, 14th Welsh Regiment , Swansea Battalion. He was killed in action, aged 29, at Mametz Wood on 10 July 1916. He is remembered with honour on the Thiepval Memorial and on the Great War Rood Screen Memorial, All Saints' Church, Mumbles.
At his remembrance service, his wife chose the poem- Into the field of battle he bravely took his place, And fought and died for England, honour, and his race, He sleeps not in his native land, but 'neath a foreign sky, Far from Wife and Children dear, in a hero's grave he lies, No one knows the silent heartache, only those can tell, Who have lost a Husband and Father dear, without saying farewell.