Name
George Arthur Smith-Masters
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/08/1915
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Bedfordshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DRANOUTRE MILITARY CEMETERY
I. C. 20.
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 29 Dec 1894 in Kidmore End, Oxfordshire son of Rev. John Ernest and Eliza Margaret (Melville) Smith-Masters of Camer, Meopham, Kent. Educated at Haileybury College 1909-13 and Keble College, Oxford.
Wartime Service
Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant on 21 Aug 1914 from the Oxford University O.T.C. He embarked with his battalion on 30 Jul 1915. He was shot at night by a sniper.
Additional Information
His brother Captain Bruce Swinton Smith-Masters MC was also killed in action on 1 Jul 1916.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
