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Leonard Francis Smith
British Army 1st/6th Bn. Gordon Highlanders
from:Stoke, Nelson, NZ
(d.12th Apr 1917)
Leonard Smith is one of seven Stoke, Nelson, NZ men killed in World War 1 on 12th April 1917. Their names appear on the Stoke Memorial. Leonard Francis Smith was the son of William and Fanny (née Mytton)Smith. He was born on on 10th October 1882 in Stoke. He is buried at the Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais, France.
All seven men are to be honoured in a photographic and memorabilia display at Isel House, Stoke, in October 2014. The organisers of the display have as yet no knowledge of how Leonard joined the Gordon Highlanders 1st/6th Battalion. The six other Stoke men were all part of the NZ Expeditionary Force. Any further information about Leonard would be greatly appreciated.
Pte. Leonard P. Smith
British Army 10th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Fulham
(d.23rd Aug 1917)
Leonard Smith was my great grandfather. My mother and I have been researching him and his story. He was a Private in the Durham Light Infantry 10th battalion. He died in the 3rd Battle of Ypres on 23rd of August 1917. I have a picture of my great grandfather. My great grandmother gave birth to my nan in May 1917 but unfortunately Leonard was already deployed when my nan was born and he died on 23rd August 1917, so never made it home to see his daughter (my nan). Leonard's name is on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Pte. Leonard Philip Smith
British Army 10th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:London
(d.23rd August 1917)
Pte. Michael Smith
British Army 7th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Kenagh, Co.Longford
(d.9th Sep 1916)
My father always told me when I was growing up that his uncle's Andrew and Michael went to war and never returned. They knew they died but didn't know when and where. I found out that Michael entered the war with the Connaught Rangers and died in France at the battle of Ginchy.
As for Andrew I cannot find anything for him. We assume that the two of them served together with the Rangers and then with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Andrew was the son of Andrew and Agnes Smyth and his D.O.B 26th Jan 1880, address: Kenagh Co.Longford.
Pte. Michael Basil Smith
British Army 6th Btn. Northamptonshire Regiment
from:Ampthill
(d.3rd April 1918)
Michael Smith, son of Mr. L B Smith, Linden House, Ampthill, Bedfordshire was born in Ampthill. He enlisted at Luton and served with 6th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment He died of his wounds on 3rd April 1918 and is buried in Namps-au-Val British Cemetery, Somme, France. He is remembered on both The War Memorial and The Alamada, St. Andrews Church, Ampthill. Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com
Pte. Miles Arthur Smith
British Army 6th Battalion Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Keighley
My great great grandfather, Miles Smith, joined the 6th Battalion, KOYLI on the 10th of August 1914. He went to France on the 13th of April 1915 and was wounded on 10th of July 1915 and was then sent back to England on the 17th of July 1915 and transferred to the Labour Corps eventually transferring to the RASC and getting posted to Egypt on the 25th of October 1918 where he was demobbed on the 20th of May 1919 and returning home with a 30% disability due to his time on the Front.
Pte. Norman Smith
British Army 1st/7th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Albion Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire
(d.26th May 1915)
Sadly, I know very little about Norman Smith. His mother was Mary Elizabeth Crabtree, who was born in Atherstone, Warwickshire in 1869. His father was Arthur Lawrence Smith, who was born in Batley, Yorkshire in 1867. His parents met and married while his mother was a nurse at Menston, Yorkshire. His father worked as a porter. He had a sister, Lucy, who was born in 1893. In the 1911 Census his father was church caretaker at Trinity Church House, Hillary Place, Leeds, Yorkshire. (This is now a nightclub, apparently.)
On the date of Norman's death, his parents had moved to Albion Street, Leeds. Norman Smith joined up in 1914 at Leeds. I do not have any photographs of him, I wish I had, but do have one of his mother Mary Elizabeth Crabtree - her father William Henry Crabtree was my great great grandfather. Mary Elizabeth Crabtree was born to William Henry and Annie Watts. She had a sister, Ellen Crabtree, who married Thomas Bowcott. No one seems to know about Norman Smith, one of the sadly forgotten, but as his great great niece I wish him to be remembered. Norman was 19 when he was killed - he is buried in Rue-Petillon Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix.
Pte. Norman Smith
British Army 1/7th Btn. West Yorkshire
from:48 Albion St., Leeds, Yorkshire
(d.26th May 1915 )
Norman Smith is the son of my great great aunt, Mary Elizabeth Crabtree, her husband was Lawrence Arthur Smith. He was born in Batley. Mary was born in Warwickshire. They had Lucy and Norman.
I am desperate to find a photograph of Norman Smith. It is important that this young man and all those who fought are never forgotten by us.
Pte. Oliver Smith
British Army 2nd Battalion Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Ashby de la zouch
Oliver Smith was born 30th of June 1900 and loved until January 1959. Initially he was in the Northumberland Fusiliers. He is believed to have joined up underage. It was said he was a runner and also represented his battalion in boxing. We would like to know when he was remustered into the KOYLI.
Sgt. Patrick Smith
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Byker
Patrick Smith was wounded in 1915
Rfmn. Patrick Smith
British Army 6th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Dublin
(d.11th Mar 1915)
Pte. Patrick Smith
British Army 7th Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers
from:Cavan, Ireland
Patrick Smith landed in France as part of the BEF on 17th of February 1916, serving until 18th of August 1917 when he was evacuated to Queen Mary’s Military Hospital in Whalley, Lancashire on 19th of August 1917. He was subsequently transferred to the Royal Defence Corps and promoted to Lance Corporal in 1918. He was discharged 19th of March 1919, whereupon he returned to Cavan and lived out the rest of his days there.
Pte. Patrick Smith
British Army 7/8th Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers
from:Cavan, Ireland
Patrick Smith served with the 7/8th Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers. I have a receipt acknowledging him as having been received on 19th of August 1917 by Queen Mary's Military Hospital. His unit fought in 3rd Ypres and suffered 224 casualties on 16th of August 1917, and I presume he was wounded in that action. The cause and extent of his injuries are unknown, but he did recover and was transferred approximately 9 months later to the 200th Company, Royal Defence Corps, where he served out the rest of the war.
Pte. Patrick Smith
British Army 7/8th Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers
from:Cavan, Ireland
I have a hospital receipt from Queen Mary's Hospital showing Patrick Smith arrived at the hospital on 19th of August 1917. I'm trying to determine what the cause of wounds was. He recovered after 9 months and was transferred to the Reserve units back in Ireland.
Pte. Percy Smith
British Army 10th Btn. Sherwood Foresters
from:Key Street, Nottingham
(d.14th February 1916)
Pte. Percy Smith
British Army 2nd Btn. East Kent Regiment
from:Brenzett, Romney Marsh, Kent
(d.14th May 1917)
Percy Smith was my Great Great Uncle. I didn't know anything about him until I visited St. George's Church in Ivy Church Romney Marsh Kent and saw a Percy Smith on the memorial in the church. I also saw his name in the remembrance book in Canterbury Cathedral. I don't remember any of my relatives talking about him. He died when my grandmother Florence Annie Smith was 12 years old. My mother, was his Great Niece.
I did some research and found out the following: He was born in 1889 in Ivy Church and enlisted in Ashford, Kent. He was the son of William and Harriet Marie Smith of George Street, Brenzett. He died on the 14th May 1917 and is buried at Struma Military Cemetery in Greece
Spr. Peter Smith
Australian Imperial Forces 1st Australian Tunnelling Coy.
Pte. Peter Alexander Smith
British Army 18th Btn. Highland Light Infantry
from:Scotland
(d.26th Oct 1917 )
Cpl. R. R. Smith
British South Africa Police
(d.24th November 1918)
Corporal Smith is buried in the Fort Rixon Military Grave in Zimbabwe
2nd Lt. Reginald Smith
Royal Flying Corps 18 Squadron
from:Putney & Sutton, Surrey
(d.20th December 1916)
Reginald Smith was killed in Air Combat on 20th of December 1916. Flying in a FE 2b serial number 4884 when attacked near Beugny, shot down in flames and burning fiercely at 12.55 hrs near Velu, by an aircraft from Jasta 2. Both he and all the crew were killed in action.
Pte. Reginald Arthur Smith
British Army 2nd Btn. Suffolk Regiment
from:Lowestoft
Reginald Smith attested on the 3rd of February 1915 and entered France with 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment on 26th of July 1916. He was wounded and posted as missing on 13th of November 1916 and reported as a Prisoner of War on 15th of February 1917. He was repatriated on 11th of January 1919.
Pte. Richard Henry Smith
British Army 10th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Stone Creek, Sunk Island, Hull
(d.3rd May 1917)
Richard Henry Smith enlisted in the 10th East Yorkshire Regiment and was one of the original Hull Pals, going to Egypt on the 22nd December 1915. The Battalion moved to the Western Front in March 1916. He was appointed an unpaid Lance-Corporal in January 1917. Richard was reported as missing, presumed dead, after the attack on Oppy Wood on the 3rd of May 1917, when the Battalion went into the attack with a strength of 550 and sustained over 200 casualties. He has no known grave.
Spr. Robert Smith
British Army 490th Field Company Royal Engineers
from:Glasgow
(d.25th Apr 1918)
My Great Grandfather Robert Smith was killed in action aged 37 and has no known grave but is remembered on the Pozieres Memorial on the Somme. He was born in Glasgow, enlisted there and had a wife and children in Glasgow.
Pte. Robert Henry Smith
Australian Imperial Force D Company 33rd Battalion
from:Tingha, New South Wales
(d.12th Oct 1917)
Private Robert Henry Smith, 1257, was a young miner from Tingha, NSW, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Smith of Ruby St. Tingha. He joined D Company 33rd Battalion, 3rd Division, 9th Brigade, 1st AIF, at Armidale on 28 January 1916. He sailed to the Western Front on HMAT Marathon on 4th May 1916. Trained in England for a period and arrived at the Western Front on 27 November 1916.
Robert participated in the successful battle of Messines, launched on 7 June 1917. A number of 33Bdn soldiers lie in the nearby Mud Corner cemetery, close to Ploegsteert Wood. Robert continued on to the 3rd Battle of Ypres (1st battle of Passchendaele). From Zonnebeke Robert advanced with 33Bdn and assisted in dislodging the German army from the high ground of Tyne Cot on 4 Oct 1917. Robert continued on with the push towards Passchendaele which commenced on 12 Oct 1917 in appalling conditions, and sadly ended in defeat, with many young Australians left lying dead in the mud.
Robert was a scout with the Battalion, but as all Scouts had been ordered back to their respective Companies prior to this last push, Robert had been detailed as a carrier with a group of other men. They had been relieved to withdraw a short distance for a break, and according to eye witness reports, a German high explosive shell landed nearby, killing him instantly, and wounding two of his comrades, who were sent to England to recover.
On 12th October 1917, at the age of 21 years and 5 months Robert died in the area of Augustus Wood (near the current Tyne Cot Cemetery). Like many thousands of other Australian soldiers who died in this theatre of war, Robert has no known grave site. However, his name appears on the Roll of Honour at the Menin Gate in Belgium. In memory of their son, Robert's name also appears on his mother's headstone in the Inverell cemetery.
Pte. Robert Smith
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Scots
from:Camelon, Falkirk
(d.20th Mar 1915)
Robert Smith lost his life at the age of 27. He was the brother of Mrs. Cooper of Camelon, Falkirk. Robert is remembered at the Ypres Menin Gate.
Surg.Prob. Robert Sydney Steele Smith AM.
Royal Navy HMS Bergamot
Robert S.S.Smith, R.N.V.R., was Surgeon Probationer on the Q-ship Bergamot when she was torpedoed by the U-84 on the 13th August 1917, due west of Killybegs, Ireland. When the torpedo hit, Smith and the 1st Lieutenant, Frederick William Siddall, were in the wardroom aft. All of the exits were blocked by the explosion, and Siddall was knocked out, so Smith piled high the wrecked wardroom furniture under the skylight and pulled him through this onto the deck. Siddall began to regain consciousness. Leaving him briefly, Smith attended a Petty Officer, lying on the deck with a broken arm and leg. Blowing up his life preserver and lowering him into the water, he then did the same for the 1st Lieutenant as by this time Bergamot was foundering.
Lieutenant Siddall was rendered unconscious again by a secondary explosion as the ship sank, and by the time he was pulled on board lifeboat no. 2, was to all intents, dead. Smith worked on him for 25 minutes, using artificial respiration and CPR until he regained consciousness. He then continued working, as best he could in the conditions, on all of Bergamot's injured personnel until they were picked up 43 hours later. The King awarded Smith the Albert Medal for lifesaving, and he was mentioned in despatches.
Pte. Robert Smith
British Army 7th Battalion 'B' Company The East Surrey Regiment
from:Camberwell, London
(d.14th October 1915)
Drvr. Robert James Smith
British Army 173rd Brigade, A Â Bty Royal Field Artillery
(d.31st July 1917)
Robert Smith is buried in Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery, Belgium. Grave VI.A.2.
Pte Robert Smith
British Army 13th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Middlesbrough
(d.2nd Dec 1915)
WO2 Robert Smith MM.
British Army 1st Northumbrian Field Ambulance Royal army Medical Corps
from:Tosson Terrace, Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne
(d.1st Aug 1916)
My grandfather Robert Smith had three brothers all of whom served with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. He enlisted in the Northumberland Fusiliers Voluntary Force in 1901 being redesignated to the Northumberland Field Territorial Force on 1st April 1908 and transferred to the RAMC on 13th June of that year. His service number was 9 and he rose to the rank of Quarter Master Sergeant (WO Class II). He was awarded the MM but for what reason remains a mystery.
On 1st of August 1916, he was found lying by the side of the road near Canada Corner with a head wound. He was taken to No.8 Casualty Clearing Station but died later that day. The Court of Enquiry found that he had been thrown from his horse when it may have slipped or been startled by a passing vehicle or exploding shell. He is buried at Bailleul. He left a widow with three children under the age of five.
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