Smith GREENWOOD

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Surname: GREENWOOD

Forename(s): Smith

Place of Birth: Burnley, Lancashire

Service No: 7075

Rank: Private

Regiment / Corps / Service: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment)

Battalion / Unit: 1/5th Battalion

Division: 49th (West Riding) Division

Age: ---

Date of Death: 1916-09-03

Awards: ---

CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 6A and 6B.

CWGC Cemetery: ---

CWGC Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Non-CWGC Burial: ---

Local War Memorial(s): Not Listed (View Names Not Listed on a Local War Memorial)

Additional Information:

Smith Greenwood was the son of William and Sarah Greenwood, née Gray. William was born at Burnley and Sarah at Barrowford, Lancashire.

1881 Burnley, Lancashire Census: 46, Ashworth Street - Smith Greenwood, aged 5 years, born Burnley, son of William and Sarah Greenwood.

1891 Burnley, Lancashire Census: 39, Eliza Street - Smith Greenwood, aged 15 years, born Burnley, son of William and Sarah Greenwood.

1901 Burnley, Lancashire Census: 39, Eliza Street - Smith Greenwood, aged 25 years, born Burnley, son of Wm and Sarah Greenwood.

1911 Burnley, Lancashire Census: 57, Ennismore Street - Smith Greenwood, aged 35 years, born Burnley. [Smith was living with his sister, Grace Ann and brother-in-law John Thomas Lancaster.]

British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Smith Greenwood, 242714, W. Rid. R.

British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte Smith Greenwood, 242714, 1/6 W. Rid. R.; 1/5 W. Rid. R. Assumed died 3-9-16.

Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte Smith Greenwood, 7075, 242714, 1/5th Bn W. Riding. Date and Place of Death: 3.9.16 on or since death presumed. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Brothers - Daniel G., £2 13s. 2d.; Hartley, £0 6s. 4d.; John William, £0 6s 4d.; Harry, £0 6s. 4d. Sisters - Sarah E. Ashton, £0 6s. 4d.; Clara Pickup, £0 6s. 3d.; Grace A. Lancaster, £0 6s. 4d.; Mary, £0 12s. 10d. Nephew - Jim, £0 12 11d. [Other information written in pencil is mostly unreadable.]

SDGW gives Smith’s battalion as the 1/6th Bn Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment); this was the battalion that he had enlisted into.

Photograph: ‘Burnley Express’ (21 July 1917).

Data Source: Craven Herald Article

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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---

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