Name
Leonard Benjamin Smith
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/07/1917
33
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
M2/203182
Army Service Corps
Attached 14th Light Armoured Motor Battery, Machine Gun Corps (Motors)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BASRA MEMORIAL
Panel 42.
Iraq
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial, Hertford Baptist Church, All Saints Church Memorial, Hertford, Not on the Hatfield memorials, Not on the Lemsford memorials
Pre War
Born in 1885 in Lemsford, Hertfordshire son of Charles and Emma Louisa Smith living in 31 Talbot Street, Hertford in 1901 and in 1 Talbot Street, Hertford in 1911.
He was a grocer, worked for C & J Law, tobacconists in Old Cross, Hertford and then as a salesman and chauffeur mechanic.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford on 20 Aug 1916, embarked at Avonmouth on 17 Nov 1916 arriving in Basra on 26 Dec 1916 and was killed in action in Mesopotamia.
Additional Information
Brother of Private Bertie Francis Smith who died in Paris on 12 Apr 1919 and is also commemorated on these memorials.
Leonard and his brother Bert are also commemorated on an additional stone vase holder on a grave (prob family) in Hertford (All Saints) Churchyard. Their inscription reads:
MY DEARLY LOVED BROTHERS
LEONARD AND BERT SMITH, KILLED IN ACTION 1917 - 1918
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
