BORN HULL 1890. LIVED HULL. SON OF MARY SMITH, AT 250, NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE WAS A FORMER DOCK LABOURER. LIVING AT 4 ARTHUR TERRACE, WATERLOO STREET, HULL.
ENLISTED BEVERLEY. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 9044, 2ND EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. POTED TO FRANCE, ON 19/05/1915. KILLED IN ACTION, AT LOOS, ON 29/09/1915, AGED 25. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 23/10/1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, JOHN NEWSTEAD SMITH, 64032, 5TH KOYLI, KILLED ON 12/09/1918, AGED 31. HE LIVED AT 5 ST JOHN’S AVENUE, ELM STREET, QUEENS ROAD, HULL, WITH HIS WIFE, ANNIE AND TWO CHILDREN.
First name:
ROBERT
Regiment:
Military Number:
9044
Rank:
Private
Date Died
29/09/1915
Place died:
Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
25
250 , NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
