10th (Prince of Wales’s Own Royal) Hussars
Date of death: 13/05/1915 (aged 20)
BORN MARKET WEIGHTON. 1895. FOURTH SON OF WILLIAM ROBERT SMITH & CHARLOTTE LOUISE SMITH, OF 93, HAWTHORNE AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE WAS A POLICEMAN AND MEMBER OF THE EAST RIDING CONTABULARY,
HE ENLISTED BEVERLEY. JOINED THE 10TH HUSSARS (PRINCE OF WALES OWN). LANDED IN FRANCE, ON 06/10/1914. KILLED AT YPRES, ON 13/05/1915, AGED 20.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON HULL’S NORTHUMBERLAND STREET SHRINE.
ALSO COMMEMORATED ON THE WW1 MEMORIAL AT ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, NEWINGTON, HULL.
ALSO RECORDED ON THE EAST RIDING POLICE MEMORIAL PLAQUE, ST MARY;S CHURCH BEVERLEY.
First name:
FRANCIS J.
Military Number:
7998
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
13/05/1915
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
20
