Samuel's Story.
Samuel was born in Bromley Kent, in May 1884, the only child of Samuel W. Worthington, a Barrister, and his wife Marion Gertrude, (nee Peek) of Northolt Blyth Road, Bromley Kent. Samuel was educated at Rugby School and Oreil College Oxford.
The 1911 Census records Samuel boarding in Berkeley Square, London studying Law. In August 1912 he married Mary Darell Vaudrey, elder daughter of the Reverent Llewellyn Brookes Vaudrey of Tushingham Hall, Cheshire, and they had one daughter, Margaret Mary, born in 1914
Samuel’s grandfather Archibald Worthington paid for the construction of the Working Men’s Club on Castle Hill, still open today, known as the “Archibald Worthington Club”
The Battle of Jerusalem
November 27th – 29th 1917
He received his commission in October 1915, and was ordered to Egypt the following February. He went through the early fighting in Palestine as a signalling officer until October 1917, when he was put in charge of the Ammunition Column. In a surprise attack by machine gunners and snipers at Beit ur el Tahra (Beth Horan) he personally helped to un-hook the teams and stayed until they were all away when he was shot through the head and killed instantaneously.
Memorials of Rugbeians Who Fell in the Great War Volume V
In Memory;
Lieutenant Samuel Worthington, Royal Horse Artillery, of The Mount, Chester Road, Whitchurch, formally of 5 Camden House Road, Kensington, London. A Barrister practicing in the North Wales & Chester Circuits, killed in action on the 28th November 1917, whilst serving in Palestine
Whitchurch Herald, 20th April 1918
In Memory
Lt. Samuel Worthington, 1/1 Leicester Battery Royal Horse Artillery, who fell in Palestine near Beth Horan whilst in command of the ammunition column, November 28th 1917 age 33
St Chad’s Church, Tushingham, Cheshire
Samuel is also remembered;
Roll of Honour in St Alkmund’s Church, High Street, Whitchurch
Rugby School War Memorial, Warwickshire
Oreil College War Memorial, Oxford
Researched by Terry Evanson