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Pte. Thomas Smith
Canadian Expeditionary Forces 16th Btn. (Manitoba Regiment)
from:Vancouver, British Columbia
(d.2nd Sep 1918)
Thomas Smith was killed in action on the 2nd of September 1918, aged 23 and is buriedin the Dominion Cemetery in France.
He was the son of Mrs Mercy Smith of 4115 Welwyn Street, Vancouver, British Columbia
Pte. Smith was a direct descendant of one Sgt. Robert Perry, late of Major Jessup's Rangers as a United Empire Loyalist during the American War of Independence. He is therefore entitled to the post-nominal of UE. He was killed during the Second Battle of Arras in the assault on the Drocourt-Queant Line on September 2, 1918.