Name
Wilfred Robert Able Smith
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/05/1915
44
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant Colonel
Grenadier Guards
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, Mentioned in Despatches twice, Order of Mejidie 4th Class Khedive’s Sudan Medal and clasp 1911, Coronation Medal
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MILITARY CEMETERY, RICHEBOURG-L'AVOUE
II. D. 14.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Waterford Village Memorial, Roll of Honour, St Michael’s & All Angels Church, Waterford, Separate Memorial in St Michael’s & All Angels Church, Waterford, Not on the Hertford memorials
Pre War
Son of Robert Smith, of Goldings, Hertford; husband of the Hon. Mrs. Wilfrid Smith, of Upton Lea, Slough, Bucks.
Queen’s Sudan Medal Queen’s South Africa Medal and clasps.
Additional Information
His headstone reads: “God is our hope and strength. A very present help in Trouble” as requested by The Hon Mrs V Smith, of Upton Lea, Slough. Wilfred is the subject of a book “From Eton To Ypres”: The Letters and Diaries of Lt Col Wilfrid Abel Smith, Gren
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Charles Abel Smith
