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 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.
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
