Samuel’s brother in law was also killed during the Great War :
Gunner Thomas William Morley, 25th Divisional Ammunition Column, was killed accidentally on 5th August 1916. He is buried in Bouzincourt Communal Cemetery Extension. He was the husband of Mrs Hannah Leavesley (formerly Morley née Finch) of 49 Mitchell Street Radford Nottingham
Nottingham Evening Post 9th August 1916.
“FINCH. – In loving memory of my dear husband, Sergt. Samuel Finch, killed in action August 9th, 1915. We often speak his loving name, and shed a silent tear; time cannot alter love so deep and true, one year but brings to us our grief anew. – Loving wife and children.
“FINCH. – In sacred memory of our dear brother, Sergt. S. Finch, killed in action August 9th, 1915. He died a true hero. – Sister Hannah, brothers Dick, Tom (in France).”
Obituary published Nottingham Evening Post, 24th October 1916.
“FlNCH. — Killed in action. September 13th, 1916. Sergeant David Finch, Sherwood Foresters, of 28, Auckland-street, Radford, brother of Sergeant Samuel Finch, killed in action, August, 9th, 1915, also brother-in-law of Gunner Thomas W. Morley, 49, Mitchell-street, killed in action, August 5th, 1916. In a far and lonely battlefield, where the trees their branches bend, lie our loved ones, gone to their untimely end. Silently the shades of evening gather round our lonely door, silently they bring before us faces we shall see no more. Duty nobly done. — Broken-hearted mother, soldier brother Jack, & sisters.”
In Memoriam notices courtesy of Jim Grundy and his facebook pages Small Town Great War Hucknall 1914-1918.