BORN HULL, 1872. SON OF JAMES WRIGHT AND CAROLINE SMITH. EX DOCK LABOURER. SINGLE MAN. LIVED AT 18 NEVILLE’S TERRACE, VAUXHALL GROVE, HULL WITH HIS MOTHER (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 4016, EYR. HIS ARMY RECORDS STATE THAT HE WAS BORN IN GLASGOW. THE CENSUS RECORDS STATE THAT HE WAS BORN IN HULL. HE SERVED WITH THE 9TH KING’S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED IN ACTION, 16/09/1916, AGED 44. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER WHO HAD REMARRIED – CAROLINE WELDON. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING.
First name:
HARRY SMITH
Military Number:
34834
Rank:
Private
Date Died
16/09/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
44
18 NEVILLE'S TERRACE, VAUXHALL GROVE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Place Buried
