Name
Edwin Smith
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/04/1917
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
240937
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
2nd/6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
M M
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LA CHAPELETTE BRITISH AND INDIAN CEMETERY, PERONNE
Plot II, Row A, Grave 4.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
Staveley War Memorial, Derbyshire
Pre War
Son of Mary Ann Hawkins (nee RICE) SMITH of Staveley, Chesterfield and the late Edwin SMITH; husband of Ethel Fanny (nee HEATH) SMITH of Watford
His parents married 22 June 1874 at St John the Baptist, Staveley. Edwin died 1913 in the Chesterfield district aged 58, and was buried at Eckington, Derbys.
Edwin was born 1892 in Staveley, and baptised 24 February 1892 at St John’s, Staveley. He married 8 January 1916 at the Congregational Church, Watford, and resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 9 he lived in Staveley, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, a coal miner aged 19, he still lived in Staveley, with his parents and one sibling.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Chesterfield, Derbys; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and died at 55 Casualty Clearing Station of wounds received in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Edwin’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
There is a brief article about and a Death announcement for Edwin in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 12 May 1917; plus an In Memoriam in the
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
