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Lt. Charles George Attervill Smith
British Army 2/9th (Queen Victoria Rifles) Btn. London Regiment
from:Reading
Before the war Charles Smith had been apprenticed to the furniture makers Waring and Gillow. He joined the Queen Victoria Rifles in 1914 as a private. He soon found himself in the trenches in France. He served under his former boss, Sam Waring, who made him his batman for a while. He also served alongside Stanley Holloway, later a star of stage and screen. Stanley had been a pupil at the same school in Acton as Charles, though a little younger. He fought in many battles, including the Ypres campaign and was commissioned in 1917. Quite a feat for a working class lad.

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