Friends of the Somme - Mid Ulster Branch  
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30/12/2015 There is a Private Samuel Dawson listed on the Memorial in Bellaghy Presbyterian Church. For the moment, we have connected the two, but there is absolutely no evidence to do so at present!
30/12/2015 Private Samuel Dawson has no known grave and is commemorated on Thiepval Memorial.
30/12/2015 Private Samuel Dawson was serving with the 11th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on Saturday 1st July 1916.
30/12/2015 Samuel Dawson enlisted in Belfast. He had previously been living in Glasgow.
30/12/2015 Samuel Dawson was born in Portglenone, County Londonderry, which suggest he was born in the Magherafelt District.
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