Samuel Loughrey was the youngest son of Samuel and Mary Ann Loughrey. He was born on 31st October 1894 in Kilrea. The farming family lived in the Kilrea area. Sam
served his apprenticeship to the boot trade and left Kilrea in 1913 for Glasgow. He enlisted in Glasgow at the outbreak of war. Guardsman Sam Loughrey was serving with the 1st Battalion of the Scots Guards when he was killed in action at Cuinchy on Monday 25th January 1915.
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Samuel Loughrey was the youngest son of Samuel Loughrey and Mary Ann Loughrey. Samuel Loughrey married Mary Donnelly on 12th July 1881 in the district of Coleraine.
Samuel Loughrey was born on 31st October 1894 in Kilrea.
Family: Samuel Loughrey, Maryann Loughrey, Charles James Loughrey (born 16th April 1882, Kilrea), Daniel Loughrey (born about 1884, Scotland), Eliza Loughrey (born about 1886, Scotland)), Mary Loughrey (born 18th February 1890, Kilrea), Margaret Jane Loughrey (born 8th May 1892, Kilrea), Samuel Loughrey (born 31st October 1894, Kilrea)
The 1901 census lists Samuel as age 6 living with the family at house 17 in Mullan, Kilrea, County Londonderry. His father was a farm labourer.
The 1911 census lists Samuel as age 16 living with the family at house 2 in Tamlaght, Kilrea. Sam had left school and was an apprentice boot maker.
After serving his apprenticeship to the boot trade, about 1913, Sam left Kilrea for Glasgow.
Sam Loughrey enlisted in Glasgow at the outbreak of war.
Guardsman Sam Loughrey was serving with the 1st Battalion of the Scots Guards when he was killed in action at Cuinchy on Monday 25th January 1915.
From the Northern Constitution dated 25th March 1916:
Information has been received by Mrs Eddie Darragh that her cousin Guardsman Samuel Loughrey was killed in action on 25th January 1916. He left the district three years earlier for Glasgow after serving his apprenticeship to the boot trade and joined up at the outbreak of war.
Private Sam Loughrey is buried in Cabaret Rouge British Cemetery. just south of the town of Souchez and eleven kilometres north of Arras.
The CWGC record Private Sam Loughrey as the son of Samuel Loughrey of Movanagher, Kilrea, County Londonderry.
