Name
Frank Smith
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/05/1917
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/10615
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
11th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DICKEBUSCH NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
Plot III, Row A, Grave 3.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Benskin's Brewery Memorial, Watford
Pre War
Son of William and Margaret (nee CLEMENTS) SMITH of Deptford, London.
His parents married 13 October 1885 at St Paul’s, Greenwich. William died 1927 aged 62, and was buried 2 August in Greenwich Cemetery; Margaret died 1929 aged 64, and was buried 5 December, also in Greenwich Cemetery.
Frank was born 1891 in Greenwich, and resided in Deptford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 9 he lived in Greenwich, with his parents and five siblings. On the 1911 Census, a beer bottler aged 19 he lived in Deptford, with his parents and eight siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Greenwich, London; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Frank’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Frank is possibly the F SMITH commemorated by Benskins
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
