BORN HULL 1900. SON OF THOMAS & JANE ANN SMITH, OF 155 NEW BRIDGE ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 2ND WEST YORKSHIRES. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 29/05/1918, AGED 18. HIS BODY WAS NOT RECOVERED. COMMEMORATED ON SOISSONS MEMORIAL, AISNE, FRANCE
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, THOMAS. HE LEFT SISTERS DAISEY, LYDIA AND DOROTHY, AND BROTHERS, WILFRED LESLIE SMITH AND TOM CLIFFORD SMITH.
HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH WERE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 2ND JUNE 1919. *
First name:
JOHN KENNETH
Military Number:
62480
Rank:
Private
Date Died
29/05/1918
Place died:
Soissons Memorial, Aisne, France
Age:
18
155 , NEW BRIDGE ROAD, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
