Name
Bruce Swinton Smith-Masters (MC)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/07/1916
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Essex Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Military Cross
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SUCRERIE MILITARY CEMETERY, COLINCAMPS
I. H. 9.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
War Memorial, Stewkley, Bucks.
Plaque and Altar Cloth in St Michaels Church, Stewkley, Bucks.
Pre War
Born on 31 Jan 1892 in Kidmore End, Oxfordshire son of the Rev. John Ernest and Eliza Margaret Smith-Masters, later Vicar of Stewkley, Buckinghamshire. Educated at Haileybury College 1906-10.
Wartime Service
Entered France on 22 Aug 1914. He was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme north of Albert.
Additional Information
Brother of 2nd Lieutenant George Arthur Smith-Masters who was killed in action on 19 Aug 1915 in Belgium.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
