Name
Frank Smith
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/04/1918
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
75926
Royal Fusiliers *1
Posted to 2nd/2nd (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 19 - 21
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Weston, Not on the Stevenage Old Town memorials
Pre War
Born in 1900 in Stevenage, Herts to George and Kate Smith. 1911 Census; living with family in Fore Street, Weston, nr Stevenage, Herts, when he was a scholar. In 1901 the family were living in Walkern Road, Stevenage.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in Hitchin. Formerly TR/9/15025 Royal West Surrey Regiment, posted to 2/2nd London Regiment. Served in France and Flanders.
Killed in the re-taking of Villers Bretonneux near Amiens.
Additional Information
Formerly Tr/9/15025, 51St R.W. Surrey Regt. War Gratuity of £6.10s awarded to father George.
*1 London Regiment
(Royal Fusiliers).
Acknowledgments
Peter Handy, Brenda Palmer
