Name
Bertie Smith
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/07/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/8908
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 12 D and 13 B.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Buntingford Town Memorial, Not on the Standon memorials
Pre War
Bertie was born in 1897 at Standon to John and Ida Smith. They lived in the village of Westmill.
By 1911 Ida was a widow and Bertie was working as a farm labourer. They had moved to 3 Norfolk Road, Buntingford.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Brighton, Sussex.
Killed in Action.
Acknowledgments
Kate Thompson
Jonty Wild, Carol Emery
