Name
Alfred Charles Smith (MM)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/10/1916
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
62395
Royal Garrison Artillery
Z/34 Trench Mortar Battery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Military Medal
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RATION FARM MILITARY CEMETERY, LA CHAPELLE-D'ARMENTIERES
II. A. 12.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Thundridge War Memorial, St John’s Church, High Cross, All Saints Church Memorial, Little Munden, Not on the Benington memorials
Pre War
Born 1896 in Bennington, Hertfordshire. The son of Mark and Ellen Smith. The youngest of four children.
The 1901 Census records Alfred aged 5 living with his parents, 2 brothers and sister at Warpoles Farm, Bennington, Herts and in 1911 Alfred, then aged 15, was working as a baker’s assistant and lodging with the baker in Watton at Stone, Hertfordshire. He also lived at Haultwich, Little Munden, Ware, Herts.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted in Hertford. Joining the Royal Garrison Artillery. In 1916 he was awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field (LG 18.08 1916 issue 29701 page 7890).
No detail of the Citation for which he received the Military Medal has been found.
Additional Information
CWGC Inscription Reads, “Son of Mark and Ellen Smith of Haultwich, Little Munden, Ware, Hertfordshire”.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Stuart Osborne, Pat Bird
