The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment
Private F Smith
Photograph by "Pearlady"
Private Frank SMITH, G/10615, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders, France, 25th May 1917.
1891, born Greenwich, SE, son of William & Margaret Smith, of 39, Berthon Street, Deptford, London.
1911 Census - 39, Berthon Street, Deptford, SE - William Smith, head, age 46, married, horse keeper, brewery depot, worker, born Greenwich, Kent; Margaret Smith, wife, age 46, married 26 years, 11 children, 10? still alive, born Greenwich, Kent; Frank Smith, son, age 19, single, beer bottler, brewery depot, worker, born Greenwich, Kent; George Smith, son, age 17, single, engineers labourer, brewery, worker, born Greenwich, Kent; Margaret Smith, daughter, age 24, single, ironer, laundry, worker, born Greenwich, Kent; Ethel Smith, daughter, age 22, single, cook, laundry, worker, born Greenwich, Kent; Ellen Smith, daughter, age 15, single, no occupation, born Greenwich, Kent; Lily Smith, daughter, age 13, school, born Greenwich, Kent; Dorothy Smith, daughter, age 9, school, born Greenwich, Kent; Charles Smith, son, age 7, school, born Greenwich, Kent; Sidney Smith, son, age 4, born Deptford, Surrey, (Kent crossed out).
Enlisted Greenwich, SE. Resided Deptford, SE.
Buried at Dickebusch New Military Cemetery Extension, III. A. 3., Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
NOTE: Regimental History & Soldiers Died in the Great War give Service No. as G/10615; CWGC web site give it as G/10815. Soldiers Died in the Great War show date of death as 25th May 1917; CWGC web site show it as 27th May 1917.
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