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SAMUEL VROMANS
BORN ANTWERP, BELGIUM, ON 18/07/1884. BELGIUM ARMY INTERPRETER. ADOPTED SON OF MRS KATHERINE OMBLER SEMBLEY, WHO RAN A DRAPERY BUSINESS AT 116, BUCKINGHAM STREET, HULL. HE MARRIED HER DAUGHTER, KATE
HE MARRIED AT HULL, IN SEPTEMBER, 1917. HIS WIFE KATE OMBLER SEMBLY (1892-1972), ALSO LIVED AT 116, BUCKINGHAM STREET, HULL AND ASSISTED IN HER MOTHERS DRAPER SHOP.
HE SERVED AS SERGEANT, WITH THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS AND ACTED AS INTERPRETER.
REPORTED AS DIED OF PNEUMONIA, AT A BELGIUM MILITARY HOSPITAL, ON 16/10/1918. (HULL DAILY MAIL, 23/10/1918).
HE IS BURIED AT Caen Nord-Est Cemetery, Basse-Normandie, France
THERE IS NO CWGC RECORD OF HIS SERVICE.`
Caen 14000
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