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Surname: SMITH
Forename(s): Edwin
Place of Birth: Arkholme, Lancashire
Service No: 781403
Rank: Sergeant
Regiment / Corps / Service: Royal Field Artillery
Battalion / Unit: 'A' Battery 311th Brigade
Division: ---
Age: 29
Date of Death: 1917-10-31
Awards: M.M.
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: IX. E. 22.
CWGC Cemetery: VLAMERTINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: CONONLEY, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Edwin Smith was the son of David Bennett and Ann Smith, née Grant. David was born at Fradley, Staffordshire and Ann at Bramley, Yorkshire.
1891 Arkholme, Lancashire Census: Arkholme Station - Edwin Smith, aged 2 years, born Arkholme, son of David B. and Ann Smith.
1901 Bradford, Yorkshire Census: 25, Queens Road - Edwin Smith, aged 12 years, born Arkholme, Lancashire, son of David B. and Ann Smith.
1911 Keighley, Yorkshire Census: Bridge House, Lawkholme Lane - Edwin Smith, aged 23 years, born Arkholme, Lancashire, son of David Bennett and Ann Smith.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Sjt Edwin Smith, 781403, Royal Field Artillery.
Data Source: Craven Herald Article
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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
SMITH, Sergeant Edwin, aged 29, R.F.A., formerly of Gargrave, killed in action.
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Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Royal Field Artillery
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16 November 1917
SMITH – Killed in action on the Western Front, Sergeant Edwin Smith, R.F.A., son of Mr. David B. Smith, Keighley (formerly station master at Gargrave), aged 29 years.
16 November 1917
A FORMER GARGRAVE LAD PAYS THE PRICE
News has reached Keighley of the death at the front of Sergeant Edwin Smith, R.F.A., one of the three soldier sons of Mr. David B. Smith, Keighley’s joint stationmaster, and formerly stationmaster at Gargrave. Before the war he was employed by Messrs. Ehrenbach, Brumm and Co., Bradford. Enlisting in October 1915, he went to the Front in January last, earning the Military Medal. He was connected with the Albert Street Baptist Chapel, Keighley, where for some time he was the energetic secretary of the Literary Society, and was also a member of the Bradford Operatic Society. He was aged 29 years.
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16 November 1917
A FORMER GARGRAVE LAD KILLED
News has reached Keighley of the death at the front of Sergt. Edwin Smith, R.F.A., one of the three soldier sons of Mr. David B. Smith, Keighley’s joint stationmaster, and formerly stationmaster at Gargrave. Before the war he was employed by Messrs. Eprenbach, Brumm and Co., Bradford. Enlisting in October, 1915, he went to the front in January last, earning the Military Medal. He was connected with the Albert Street Baptist Chapel, Keighley, where for some time he was the energetic secretary of the Literary Society, and was also a member of the Bradford Operatic Society. He was 29 years of age.
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