Name
Edward Thomas Smith
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/05/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
14519
Bedfordshire Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Cuthbert's Rye Park Church Memorial, Rye Park
Pre War
Born on 13 Nov 1897 and baptised on 16 Jan 1898 in Rye Park, Hoddesdon son of Edward Earling and Emma Elizabeth (Lewis) Smith and was living in 5 Suffolk Terrace, Rumbold Road, Rye Park in 1901 and later in 37 Rumbold Road, Rye Park.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford and was killed in action at the Battle of Arras attacking Cherisy.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
