The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private F S G Smith

Photograph by "Robert O'Connor"

Private Frank Sydney Garwood SMITH, G/1479, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, Flanders France, *19th July 1916, age 27.

Born Holloway, London, N, son of Sydney John & Jessie Emma Smith, 12, Beech Street, Moffley Hill, Saulte Ste. Marie, Canada.

8th November 1889, Holy Trinity, Haverstock Hill, Camden, baptism of Frank Sydney Garwood Smith, son of Sydney John, (Estate Agent), & Jessie Emma Smith, 94 Lady Margaret Road.

1911 Census - 26 Havelock Road, Tottenham, N - Sydney John Smith, head, age 47, married, Conductor of Tramway Car, London County Council, worker, born Kentish Town, London; Jessie Emma Smith, wife, age 44, married 22 years, 5 children, 4 still alive, born Kentish Town, London; Frank Sydney Garwood Smith, son, age 21, single, leather cutting machinist (out of employment), born Holloway, London; Lilian Jessie Smith, daughter, age 20, single, born Hampstead, London; Dorothy May Smith, daughter, age 8, born Walthamstow, Essex.

Enlisted Tottenham, London, N.

22nd April 1915, posted BEF.

Sole Legatee, Miss Ethel Hare.

Buried at Heilly Station Cemetery, II. C. 25., Mericourt-L'Abbe, France.

*NOTE - Medal Index Card & Register of Soldiers Effects shows date of death as 21st July 1916.

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