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Surname: SMITH
Forename(s): Walter Sydney
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
Service No: ---
Rank: 2nd Lieutenant
Regiment / Corps / Service: Royal Flying Corps
Battalion / Unit: 48th Squadron
Division: ---
Age: 25
Date of Death: 1918-01-09
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: ---
CWGC Cemetery: JONCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial(s): Not Listed (View Names Not Listed on a Local War Memorial)
Additional Information:
Walter Sydney Smith was the son of Harold and Jane Smith, née Busfield. Harold was born at Leeds and Jane at Bradford, Yorkshire.
1901 Shipley, Yorkshire Census: 26, Moorhead Villas, Ivy Road - Walter S. Smith, aged 8 years, born Ohio, Cleveland, U.S.A., son of Harold and Jane Smith.
1911 Shipley, Yorkshire Census: 10, Staveley Road, Saltaire - Walter Sydney Smith, aged 18 years, born Cleveland, Ohio, son of Harold and Jane Smith.
Walter was married to Margaret Armitage Wood in 1917.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Cpl Walter Sydney Smith, 335, Royal Army Medical Corps & West Yorkshire Regiment, 407060 & 2/Lt Royal Flying Corps. Theatre of War first served in: (1) France. Date of entry therein: 13 April 1915. Commissioned: West Yorkshire Regiment, 28 March 1917. Missing. Killed in Action, 9 January 1918. Correspondence: Mrs Watson (Widow remarried), 16, Pembroke Terrace, Bridlington.
Data Source: Memorial Inscription on Family Gravestone
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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---
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Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Royal Flying Corps
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Marriage Register of St Mark’s Church, Manningham, Bradford, Yorkshire
Entry for the marriage of Walter Sydney Smith to Margaret Armitage Wood, 10 November 1917
Courtesy of West Yorkshire Archive Service
St Michael & All Angels Churchyard, Linton-in-Craven
The gravestone of Caroline Isabel Smith, née Delacour (grandmother of Walter Sydney Smith) and her daughter, Mildred Ethel Smith
St Michael & All Angels Churchyard, Linton-in-Craven
The gravestone of Caroline Isabel Smith, née Delacour (grandmother of Walter Sydney Smith) and her daughter, Mildred Ethel Smith - detail
St Michael & All Angels Churchyard, Linton-in-Craven
The gravestone of Caroline Isabel Smith, née Delacour (grandmother of Walter Sydney Smith) and her daughter, Mildred Ethel Smith - detail
St Michael & All Angels Churchyard, Linton-in-Craven
The gravestone of Caroline Isabel Smith, née Delacour (grandmother of Walter Sydney Smith) and her daughter, Mildred Ethel Smith - detail
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