Name
Arthur George Smith
1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/02/1915
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
L/15213
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 94 and 56
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in Belgium to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
Goffs Oak War Memorial, St James Church Memorial Goffs Oak, Cheshunt Town Memorial
Pre War
Arthur George Smith was born in January 1897, in Goffs Oak, Hertfordshire, the younger of two children of William George and Sophia Maria Smith (nee Dyson).
He was Baptised on 31st January 1897, at St. James Church, Goffs Oak, Herts.
In 1901 the family were living in Northill, Bedfordshire, where his father was a general labourer.
In 1911 the family were back living in Goffs Lane, Goffs Oak, Herts, Arthur (14) was employed as a Garden Nursery Worker, brother William (16) a Hay binder and his father a General Labourer.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted at Edmonton, Middx, in Oct/Nov 1914, posted to the Duke of Cambridges Own (Middlesex Regiment), with the service number L/15213.
On completion of his training, he was sent to France arriving on 9th February 1915. He was Killed in Action just 15 days later on 24th February 1915, aged 18, he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in Belgium to the missing.
Additional Information
His effects of £1-8s-9d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £5 went to his father William Smith.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Brian Lodge
