Name
Robert Smith
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
48998
Labour Corps
82nd Labour Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Robert Smith was recorded for the first time in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in March 1917, serving with the Royal Garrison Artillery. It is not known when he transferred to the Labour Corps, but in the Parish Roll of Honour of January 1918 Robert was listed serving with the 82nd Labour Company. He was recorded serving with this unit through to the end of the War.
Robert was listed in the Absent Voter Records in Autumn 1918 and Spring 1919, still serving with the 82nd Labour Company, and his address was given at Asylum Road, Abbots Langley.
It has not been possible to trace Robert Smith’s records in the National Census, however it was recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine that Robert and his wife Mary Ann had a daughter, born on 27th August 1914, and another on 18th October 1916, so the family were certainly in the Parish from the summer of 1914.
Robert Smith survived the War.
Additional Information
Formerly Royal Garrison Artillery
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
