Description:A view of Samuel Yates Danks' drapers and milliners shop at 16 Upper Brook Street, Rugeley. The frontage was relatively new at this time. It later became Lawley Brown's drapers shop and then the Rugeley Gas Co. premises. Samuel Yates Dank's was the born in 1886, the son of a Rugeley publican, married Eleanor Woosnam in Surrey in 1908, where their daughter Florence was born in 1909. He was in this Rugeley business here by 1911.
Samuel enlisted in the Victoria Rifles in 1916. After two months in France he was hospitalised with wounds and severe shell-shock. He was transferred to the irish Rifles in 1917 and his ship was torpedoed on route to Egypt. After some time in the water he was rescued but died in March 1918. he is buried at the American Colony Cemetery, Jerusalem.