234219 Pte Edward Martin Smith British Army 10th (Liverpool Scottish) Btn. King's Regiment (Liverpool) from:4B Granby St, Liverpool Edward Martin Smith (b. 19 Jan 1893) was posted to the Front on 1 March 1917. He was captured and taken Prisoner of War on 30 November 1917 during the Battle of Cambrai. He arrived at a POW camp in Munster, Germany on 4 December 1917, where he remained until 7 December 1918, having sustained severe beatings. His last place of internment was in Liege, Belguim. After the war he returned to his job as a foreman painter in Liverpool and he and his wife Elizabeth had 8 children, 4 of whom survived childhood. He died aged 42 in Liverpool on 27 January 1935 from a brain tumour (rumoured to have been a result of the beatings he received as a POW).
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