Name
James Lawrence Hirst Smyth
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/05/1915
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
G/1582
Royal Sussex Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 20 and 21.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Ware memorials
Pre War
Born in 1891 in Kensington, London son of Dr. James D. and Mrs. Ellen Mary Hirst Smyth and was living in 60 Clapham Road, Lambeth in 1901. Educated at Ware and Newport Grammar Schools.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in Sep 1914 in Hove. Proceeded to France in Nov., 1914. Associate National Service League (1912). and was killed in action at Richebourg.
Additional Information
Recorded as G/15564 in SDITGW.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
