Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of the late Thomas Kirk Line and Ann Line.

Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Coalville Times article - Friday December 18th, 1914

FROM AN OLD COALVILLE BOY

Dear Sir, I am very pleased to see through the columns of the good old “Coalville Times” that the boys of Coalville and District have answered their country’s call and are doing their duty well. I get the “Times” every week from my brother and it gives me great pleasure to read the letters from the boys in the paper. I enlisted in the Warwicks fourteen weeks ago and as I was working in Leamington Spa at the time war broke out, or I should certainly have joined the Leicestershire Regiment, but I am doing my duty as an Englishman should do. Since we have been here we have had to make our own rifle range and now we are doing a course of firing on it. Food there is in plenty but it is rough. This is a very good training ground here as there is plenty of waste land for the job. Well good luck to all the boys of Coalville and District.

Samuel Line
(Son of the late T. Line, tailor, Hotel Street, Coalville)

Coalville Times article - Friday December 8th, 1916

COALVILLE SOLDIER MISSING

Private Samuel Line, of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, has been posted as missing since an engagement on October 12th. This news has been officially forwarded to his sister, Mrs Lawrence, of Stone Row, Hermitage Road, Coalville.

Private S. Line, who was 36 years of age, and single, was a son of the late Mr T. Line, a former tailor of Hotel Street, Coalville, and for many years secretary of the Coalville Liberal Club. When residing at Coalville, the missing soldier lodged with his sister, and worked at the Whitwick Colliery, but, like his father, he was a tailor by trade, and when war broke out he was engaged as a foreman tailor at Leamington. He enlisted at Warwick. He used to write regularly to his sister, but she has not heard from him since September 30th, when he stated that he was in excellent health. He was known in the trenches by the nickname of “Snip” and if this should meet the eye of anyone who can give any information as to his whereabouts, Mrs Lawrence will be pleased to hear from them.

Coalville Times article - Friday August 10th, 1917

LOCAL CASUALTIES

Mrs E. Lawrence, of Stone Row, Coalville, has received a communication from the War Office intimating that no further news having been received of her brother, Private Samuel Line, of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, missing since October, 1916, the Army Council have been regretfully constrained to conclude that he is dead, and that his death took place on October 12th, or since. The sympathy of the King and Queen and of the Army Council with the relatives is expressed. Private S. Line, was a son of the late Mr Samuel Line, tailor, of Hotel Street, one of the founders of the Coalville Liberal Club, and for many years the secretary. The deceased soldier was also a tailor, working in Warwickshire before the war broke out.

Coalville Times article - Friday October 12th, 1917

IN MEMORIAM

In loving memory of Private Samuel Line, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who was killed in action October 12th, 1916. Aged 36 years.

“Gone, but not forgotten.”

From his loving Brother and Sisters

Research undertaken and submitted (including photograph from Coalville Times) by Andy Murby, 18/10/ 2017.