BORN HULL 1883. LIVED ROTHERHAM. ENLISTED KENDALL, WESTMORELAND. SON OF JOHN & ELIZABETH. WIFE BLANCHE ELIZABETH SMITH (BORN30/01/1892), LIVED AT 26 HANLEY STREET, BIRMINGHAM. THEY HAD ONE SON, JOHN HENRY SMITH, BORN, 09/01/1914.
A PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER, SERVING WITH THE 2ND SUFFOLK REGIMENT. HE WENT TO FRANCE WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, ON 12/08/1914. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 27/10/1914, AGED 34. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE YPRES, MENIN GATE MEMORIAL.
First name:
JOHN
Military Number:
6985
Rank:
Sergeant
Date Died
27/10/1914
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
34
