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Pte. Francis Henry Smith
British Army Leicester Yeomanry
from:Melton Mowbray
(d.13th May 1915)
Francis Smith was killed in 1915 while serving with the Leicester Yeomanry. When his mother was told about his death it was said that it turned her hair white. Francis being the elder of two boys, my great grandfather then tried to stop the younger son from being conscripted. This went to a tribunal and he lost but he was sent to India instead of the Western Front.