Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Great War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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Pte. James William Smith

British Army 8th/10th Battalion Gordon Highlanders

from:Heathcote Road, Swadlincote, Burton-on-Trent

(d.28th March 1918)

According to information passed down to me, James was wounded during the German advance. He had to be left by his unit in a trench that was captured by the Germans. When they recaptured the trench James was missing, his body was never found.

He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.



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