Private Samuel Gothorp
5760 2nd East Lancashire Regiment
Killed in Action 7th July 1916, aged 23
Enlisted in Burnley
Lived at 7 Holme Street (Cotton Tree, Colne)
Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France
Burnley Express 5th August 1916

Born in Accrington, Lancashire.
Son of Charles and Annie Gothorp, of 7, Holme St, Cotton Tree, Colne, Lancashire.
Formerly lived at 8, Cromwell Street, Foulridge.
Employed as a weaver.

Colne and Nelson Times
Foulridge Soldier's Death
The Foulridge Parish Magazine for August contains the following:-
"We are sorry to record the death of Private Samuel Gothorp who was killed in action at Contmaison on the 7th of last month. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Gothorp, 8, Cromwell Street, Foulridge, and was 23 years of age. The first to enlist from the village on the first day of the war, he was soon sent to France where he spent two long winters in the trenches, from where he had to be invalided home several times through frostbite etc. During his last convalescence, before returning to the Front, he received adult baptism at his own request by the Vicar, in church, and was looking forward earnestly to confirmation. The following day he attended, with his mother, the Tipperary Club, and gave the members an exhibition of the use of his gas-mask, which was both interesting and instructive. Before enlistment he was a member of the Church and Sunday School, an old day school boy and a weaver at Fryer Bros. Ltd. His brother, Gunner Charles Gothorp is at present stationed at Ceylon. We feel sure that the sympathy of the whole village will be extended to Mr and Mrs Gothorp in their sad loss, and that the sunshine of God's love will break through the dark cloud of their bereavement to cheer and sustain them."