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Smith, William Frank

Rank : Private

Army Number : 202818

Unit : 2/4th Bn

Biography :

Enlisted at Market Harborough, Leicestershire. Home address given as Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire. Enlisted in Market Harborough, Leicestershire. Killed in action on 26th September 1917. He is buried at Bridge House Cemetery, Belgium.

CWGC:

Private
SMITH, W F
Service Number 202818
Died 26/09/1917
2nd/4th Bn.
Leicestershire Regiment

From the Market Harborough Advertiser November 1917: PRIVATE WILLIAM FRANK SMITH: LEICESTERSHIRE REGIMENT A two-year-old little girl is now without a father and her mother is without a husband. Twenty-nine-year-old Smith, ‘a prominent member of Kibworth Football Team’, was killed in action at the end of September. Official notification has only just been received from the War Office.

Read more at: https://www.harboroughmail.co.uk/news/john-s-real-time-ww1-blog-seven-photographs-that-together-tell-a-terrible-story-1-8253282

Date of Birth : c 1888

Place of Birth : & Smeeton Westerby & Leicestershire

Date of Death : 26.9.1917

Place of Death : & & Belgium

Period of Service : 1910s

Conflicts : WW1

Places Served : & & Belgium

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