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Surname: SMITH
Forename(s): Harlan
Place of Birth: Sutton-in-Craven, Yorkshire
Service No: 105776
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Royal Army Medical Corps
Battalion / Unit: 9th Field Ambulance
Division: Guards Division
Age: 34
Date of Death: 1917-10-15
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: VIII. I. 59.
CWGC Cemetery: BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: SUTTON-IN-CRAVEN, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Harlan Smith was the son of Carey and Margaret Smith, née Hargreaves. Both of Harlan's parents were born at Sutton-in-Craven, Yorkshire.
1891 Sutton-in-Craven, Yorkshire Census: North Street - Harlan Smith, aged 7 years, born Sutton, son of Carey and Margaret Smith.
1901 Sutton-in-Craven, Yorkshire Census: 6, North Street - Harlan Smith, aged 17 years, born Sutton, son of Carey and Margaret Smith.
1911 Sutton-in-Craven, Yorkshire Census: 6, North Street - Harlan Smith, aged 27 years, born Sutton Mill, son of Carey and Margaret Smith.
The British Army Service Record for Harlan Smith exists but may be incomplete.
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
SMITH, Harland, [Sutton], aged 34, R.A.M.C., died from gas poisoning Oct. 14, 1917.
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Private Harlan SMITH
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Royal Army Medical Corps
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: Guards Division
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19 October 1917
SUTTON – ANOTHER SACRIFICE
News was received that Private Harlan Smith, son of Mrs. Carey Smith, of North Street, Sutton-in-Craven, was lying in a war hospital at Boulogne dangerously ill from poison gas. Yesterday, however, a cablegram was received to say that he had died.
26 October 1917
SMITH – October 14th 1917, died from gas poisoning in a French hospital, Private Harlan Smith, R.A.M.C., son of Mrs. Carey Smith, North Street, Sutton, aged 34 years.
26 October 1917
SUTTON-IN-CRAVEN – PRIVATE HARLAN SMITH FATALLY ‘GASSED’
Another well-known Sutton young man, Pte. Harlan Smith, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, has made the supreme sacrifice. His mother, Mrs. Carey Smith of North Street, received a telegram from the War Office on the 17th of October informing her that her son was in hospital in France seriously ill from gas poisoning and pneumonia. Later in the day an official letter was received stating that Pte. Smith had succumbed, having been gassed on Sunday the 14th October. Pte. Smith, in his letter home, received on the day he was gassed, stated that they had been in camp but they were moving up. He was an only child, and lived with his widowed mother. Before joining up two years ago, he was a teacher in the City of Leeds. He was also on the teaching staff at the Glusburn Technical Institute, was closely associated with the Baptist Church at Sutton, and had been a Sunday School teacher and member of the church for some years. Of a quiet and unassuming disposition, Pte. Smith was loved by everyone with whom he came in contact, and was also a very brilliant teacher. He was 34 years of age. He went out to France in March last.
At the Sunday morning service at the Sutton Baptist Chapel the pastor, Rev. F. W. Pollard, made special reference to the late Private Harlan Smith. The choir gave the anthem ‘No shadows yonder’, Mr. William Laycock taking the solo.
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19 October 1917
SUTTON MILL
DEATH OF PTE. H. SMITH
Mrs. Carey Smith, widow of the late Mr. Carey Smith, of North Street, who received information on Wednesday morning by telegram, stating that her son, Private Harlan Smith, R.A.M.C., was dangerously ill with, pneumonia through the effects of gas poisoning, has since been informed that he has died. Prior to joining the forces he was employed as teacher at the Beeston Hill School, Leeds. He was also teacher at the Glusburn Institute evening classes. He joined early in the war and has been out many months. Much sympathy is felt for his widowed mother in her great trouble over her only son. Private Smith was a teacher at the Sutton Baptist Sunday school and a member of the church.
26 October 1917
SUTTON MILL
DEATH OF PTE. H. SMITH
The death of Pte. Harold [Harlan] Smith, of the R.A.M.C., from pneumonia, following gas poisoning which was reported last week, has been received with deep regret, and many expressions of sympathy have been received by the widowed mother. Brief reference was made on Sunday morning) at the Baptist church (where he was a member) by Rev. F. W. Pollard. He referred to the great loss the church had sustained by the death of one whom he believed was destined to take an important part in the church affairs, following in the footsteps of his honoured father, the late Mr. Carey Smith, who was for many years an honoured deacon. He had died while seeking to bring help to others in distress. The deceased, who was in his 35th year, followed the profession of teacher at Princess Field Council School, Beeston Hill, Leeds. As a youth he, became a teacher at the Sutton Council School, and attended the Pupil Teachers’ Training classes at Keighley. After hard work in his studies, he gained the King’s Scholarship, and spent three years at the Leeds University. After completing his studies there, he became teacher in Princess Field School, and then in the White Hall Road School, Leeds. He was for some time a teacher at Cleckheaton evening school and later at Glusburn Institute. He was highly respected by all who knew him, and had a prospect and a very useful and honourable career. Great sympathy is felt, for the widowed mother and his fiancée in their time of great loss.
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