BORN HULL 1896. SON OF WALTER SMITH & EMMA JANE (DOWDY) SMITH, AT 29 ABBEY STREET, HULL. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. A CONFECTIONER BY TRADE. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1ST COLDSTREAM GUARD. WOUNDED IN THE THIGH AT LA BASSEE, ON 22/12/1914. INVALIDED TO SHEFFIELD HOSPITAL AND A CONVALSCENT HOME, IN NEWARK, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE (HDM 12/02/1915). RETURNED TO SERVICE. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 29/13/1917, AGED 21. HIS YOUNGER BROTHER REGINALD SMITH WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON 26/09/1917. BURIED AT NOYELLES-SUR-SELLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY, NORD, FRANCE.
First name:
RAYMOND ALFRED
Regiment:
Military Number:
11452
Rank:
Corporal
Date Died
29/12/1917
Place died:
NOYELLES-SUR-SELLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY, NORD, FRANCE
Age:
21
29 , ABBEY STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
