Samuel Dovner
He was a miner.
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Samuel Dovner was baptised on 9th June 1887 at Holy Trinity church, Chesterfield, he was the son of the late John a coal miner and the late Martha Ann Dovner née Calladine,
His father John Dovner was born in 1861 at Wadsley Bridge, Ecclestone, he died in 1911 aged aged 51 yrs, his mother Martha Ann Calladine was born in 1867 at Chesterfield, she died in 1900 aged 33 yrs, they were married on 29th November 1885 at St Mary's church, Chesterfield.
By the 1911 census Sam has left the family home he is 23 yrs a coal miner hewer, he was living as a boarder at 83 Church Street, Langwith he was boarding with John Blackburn 55 yrs a fish trader and his family which included his future wife Alice Blacburn 22 yrs
He married Alice Blackburn on 17th April 1911 at St Lukes Chapel of Ease, Langwith, they had two children, William and John James both of whom were born in 1912 at Langwith they lived at 33 Church Street, Langwith
Corporal Samuel Dovner enlisted at Chesterfield whilst living at Mansfield, he went to France on 8th September 1914 and was killed in action, on 25th July 1916, by German shellfire, whilst serving in the trenches near St. Jean, Belgium.
Buried: White House Cemetery, St. Jean-Les-Ypres, Belgium. Plot 1. Row H. Grave 11.
This man is commemorated in a book of remembrance held by Mansfield District Council.
additional research and information Peter Gillings
Photo of Samuel Dovner
Dovner Samuel grave at White House Cemetery, Belgium, courtesy of the Sherwood Foresters Regiment roll of honour