BORN HULL 1898. SON OF SHEPLEY VICKERS SMITH (1864-1940) & CLARA HARRIS (1870-1926), OF 58, HOPWOOD STREET, HULL AND 33, PRINCES ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESSES). HE HAD ONE BROTHER, AMOS CHARLES SMITH (1892-1915).
HIS FATHER WAS AN ASSISTANT SUPER INDENTENT WITH PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE, AT LIVED AT 14, FREEHOLD STREET, HULL, 41, MIDDLETON STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) 33, PRINCES ROAD, HULL AND 58, HOPWOOD STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESSES)
ENLISTED HULL. ATTACHED TO 8TH RIFLE BDE. KILLED IN ACTION, AT POZIERES, ON 04/04/1918, AGED 20.
HIS ONLY BROTHER, BUGLER, AMOS CHARLES SMITH, 9377, KOYLI, DIED OF WOUNDS IN 1915. THEIR PARENTS HAD LOST THEIR ONLY TWO CHILDREN TO THE WAR.
First name:
SHEPLEY VICKERS
Military Number:
10428
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
04/04/1918
Place died:
Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
20
