Willie SMITH (2)

Main CPGW Record

Surname: SMITH

Forename(s): Willie

Place of Birth: Cowling, Yorkshire

Service No: L/17006

Rank: Driver

Regiment / Corps / Service: Royal Field Artillery

Battalion / Unit: 32nd Div. Ammunition Col.

Division: 32nd Division

Age: ---

Date of Death: 1916-01-14

Awards: ---

CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Near South-East corner of Churchyard.

CWGC Cemetery: CODFORD ST. MARY (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD

CWGC Memorial: ---

Non-CWGC Burial: ---

Local War Memorial: COWLING, YORKSHIRE

Local War Memorial: EARBY, YORKSHIRE

Additional Information:

Willie Smith was the son of William and Elizabeth Smith, née Binns. Both parents were born at Cowling, Yorkshire.

1891 Cowling, Yorkshire Census: Park Lane Bottom - Willie Smith, aged 1 years, born Cowling, son of Elizabeth Smith, widow.

1901 Cowling, Yorkshire Census: 7, Park Lane Bottom - Willie Smith, aged 11 years, born Cowling, son of Elizabeth Smith, widow.

1911 Earby, Yorkshire Census: 8, Mill Brow - Willie Smith, aged 21 years, born Cowling, Yorkshire, son of Elizabeth Smith, widow.

Willie was married to Ada Walmsley in 1913 and they had one daughter, Winifred Mary, born 22 March 1914. Ada married Henry Demaine in 1917.

Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Driver Willie Smith, L/17006, 32nd D.A.C., R.F.A. Date and Place of Death: 14.1.16 Military Hospital, Codford, Wiltshire. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Widow - Mrs. Ada Demaine. £4 8s. 2d.

Willie died of osteomyelitis.

See 'View Additional Image(s)' for Private George William Gott (17994) – on the photograph of Cowling Hill Baptist Chapel there are two Willie Smiths shown (fourth row – from the back – second from right and front row first on left) neither of whom can be identified with certainty.

See also:
‘Earby in the First World War’ by Stephanie Carter, published by Earby & District Local History Society (2014).
‘Our Finest Crop’ by Steven Marshall, published by Earby & District Local History Society (2020).

Data Source: Local War Memorial

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

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