Death & burial
Death registered
Samuel Potter, aged 60 years, March Quarter 1888, Burton.
Samuel Potter was buried in Stapenhill Cemetery (also known as Burton Cemetery), Stapenhill Road, Burton-upon-Trent, on the 23rd of February 1888, in Grave No. 1560, aged 60 years.
(There is a copy of his burial certificate from the Stapenhill Cemetery in the "Certificates" file.)
From the Army and Navy Gazette, [date?] February 1888:
4th Hussars — Samuel Potter died on the 20th of February 1888 at Burton-on-Trent. He took part in the Charge as a Corporal and later became a Sergeant. For the past twenty-five years he worked in the Building Department of Messrs Bass Brewery...
A stone was erected by subscription.
The erection of a memorial headstone to Samuel Potter reported in the Lichfield Mercury, 29 March 1889
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Memorial to Samuel Potter erected by subscription at Stapenhill Cemetery, Burton on Trent.
[Source: MilitaryImages: Samuel Potter (accessed 22.11.2018).]
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A stone erected to his memory, consisting of a stone cross and kerb, has the inscription:
This monument was erected by subscription to the memory of Samuel Potter (of Lichfield) late of Burton-upon-Trent, who took part with the 4th Light Dragoons in the memorable charge at Balaclava. Died February 20th 1888, aged 60 years.
"Honour the Charge they made — Noble Six Hundred."
Also buried in the same grave-space are Julia Donaldson, aged 76 years, buried on the 19th of March 1886, and Jessie Sophia Potter, aged 63 years, buried on the 9th of May 1901. The first and last names could have been his mother-in-law and his wife.
(There is a photograph of this in the 4th Hussar file.)