The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private R H Smith

Private Reginald Holt SMITH, G/18130, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 23rd July 1917, age 35.

Born Trinity, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, son of William Henry Chappel Smith and Elizabeth Jane Smith, of 13, Market Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.

1911 Census - 13, Market Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire - William H C Smith, head, age 66. widower, draper, own account, at home, born Holy Trinity Parish; Emily Smith, daughter, age 39, single, housekeeper, at home, born Holy Trinity Parish; Edith Smith, daughter, age 34, single, business carried by father, at home, born Holy Trinity Parish; Ethel Smith, daughter, age 25, single, typist unemployed, at home, born Holy Trinity Parish; Archie Smith, son, age 23, draper, at home, born Holy Trinity Parish; Edith Reuben, servant, age 20, single, domestic, born Bourn Parish, Cambridgeshire.

Cannot find Reginald Holt SMITH, on the 1911 Census .

1910 / 1911 Register of Electors - Reginald Holt Smith, bedroom, 1st floor furnished, 18 Sussex Street, Cambridge, landlord W H C Smith of 13 Market Street.

1911 / 1912 Register of Electors - Reginald Holt Smith, bedroom, 1st floor furnished, 18 Sussex Street, Cambridge, landlord W H C Smith of 13 Market Street.

1912 / 1913 Register of Electors - Reginald Holt Smith, bedroom, 1st floor furnished, 18 Sussex Street, Cambridge, landlord W H C Smith of 13 Market Street.

1913 / 1914 Register of Electors - Reginald Holt Smith, bedroom, 1st floor furnished, 18 Sussex Street, Cambridge, landlord W H C Smith of 13 Market Street.

1914 / 1915 Register of Electors - Reginald Holt Smith, bedroom, 1st floor furnished, 18 Sussex Street, Cambridge, landlord W H C Smith of 13 Market Street.

Enlisted Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, age 33 years & 6 months, height 5ft 5 inches, weight 114lbs, ????? back of heel. 18 Sussex Street, Cambridge. Formerly hosier.

Home 9th December 1915 to 26th August 1916; BEF 27th August 1916 to 23rd July 1917.

9th December 1915, enlisted; 10th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 22nd March 1916, mobilized; 23rd March 1916, posted 3/1 Suffolk Yeomanry, Service No.3654; 27th August 1916, Folkestone, embarked; 27th August 1916, Boulogne, disembarked; 28th August 1916, 15 Infantry Base Depot, posted 1/4th Suffolk Regiment; 7th September 1916, transferred to 4th Reserve Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 7th September 1916, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 19th April 1917, In the Field, dirty rifle on Parade, 5 days confined to Barracks; 16th June 1917, In the Field, improperly dressed & dirty rifle on Parade, 1 day confined to Barracks.

28th August 1917, Probate - Reginald Holt Smith of 13, Market Street, Cambridge, Private 7th Royal West Kent Regiment died 23rd July 1917, in France. Probate, Peterborough, 28th August to William Henry Chapel Smith, draper. Effects £194 3s 7d.

12th September 1919, Statement of Relatives - Widow, nil; Children, nil; Father, William Henry Chappel Smith, 13, Market Street, Cambridge; Mother, deceased; Brothers - William Sidney Ernest Smith, age 48, 10 Barton Road, Cambridge; Sisters - Emily Annie Smith, age 46, 13, Market Street, Cambridge; Edith Mary Smith, age 43, 4 Parkside, Cambridge; Clara Jane Smith, age 40, 4 Parkside, Cambridge; Ethel Holt Carter, age 33, 4 Parkside, Cambridge.

Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 45 and 47, Belgium.

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