Name
Albert John Smith
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/04/1918
40
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sergeant
65186
Royal Engineers
106th Field Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD
III. G. 190.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Christchurch Memorial, Chorleywood, Memorial Hall Plaque, Chorleywood, Diocese - Book of Remembrance, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans (*1), Diocese of St Albans - ROH, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans (*1)
Pre War
Born in 1878 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire son of Jabez and Mary Ann Smith.
He married Edith Smith in 1909 and they lived at 3 Manor Cottages, Swillett, Chorleywood. He was a carpenter.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Watford, entered France on 27 Sep 1915 and died of wounds probably in hospital at Bailleul.
Additional Information
*1 The St Albans Cathedral Diocese records record an Alfred Smith with a connection to Chorleywood who was a Sergeant in the Royal Engineers and his wife’s address was recorded as Chorleywood, however we have not been able to identify this man. We have identified an ‘Albert John Smith’ was a Sergeant in the Royal Engineers and his wife’s address was recorded as Chorleywood. So, while we are not certain, we think that the reference to Alfred Smith may be incorrect and we have assumed this to be the man intended to be commemorated in the Diocese records.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Alex Twells
