Private Samuel Rice served with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Samuel Rice married Mrs Mary Kempton, the wife of the late Henry Kempton of Urbal, Coagh, on 20 April 1915.He had been based at Randalstown Camp at the time of his marriage. He spent a couple of months in hospital at Brompton and Liverpool as a result of a discharge from his ears that appeared after an enemy bombardment. He was by this time partially deaf.