The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private S G Smith

Private Sydney George SMITH, S/8453, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Hill 60, France, 18th April 1915.

Born Bromley, Kent, , son of Henry & Sarah Smith.

Educated Aylesbury Road School, Bromley, Kent.

1911 Census - 26 Newbury Road, Bromley, Kent - Henry Smith, head, age 46, married, coal carman, worker, born Bromley, Kent; Sarah Smith, wife, age 46, married 25 years, 12 children, all still alive, born Bromley, Kent; Henry Smith, son, age 19, single, coal wharfman, worker, born Bromley, Kent; Florence Smith, daughter, age 18, single, born Bromley, Kent; *Sidney Smith, son, age 16, single, yard boy, Borough Council, worker, born Bromley, Kent; Elsie Smith, daughter, age 14, born Bromley, Kent; Frederick Smith, son, age 13, school, born Bromley, Kent; Ernest Smith, son, age 11, school, born Bromley, Kent; Walter Smith, son, age 10, school, born Bromley, Kent; Horace Smith, son, age 8, born Bromley, Kent.

Enlisted Bromley, Kent.

7th December 1914, posted BEF.

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

see Pte H C Smith

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