Name
Martin Kirke Smith
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/12/1915
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Royal Field Artillery
99th Trench Mortar Battery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POINT 110 OLD MILITARY CEMETERY, FRICOURT
J. 11.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 15 Aug 1885 in Somersham, Cambridgeshire son of the Rev. Arnold Kirke and Emma Frances (Lindsell) Smith of Boxworth Rectory, Cambridge. Educated at Haileybury College 1899-1903 and King’s College, London. Was in the Argentine when war broke out. Immediately returned and volunteered. He was unmarried.
Wartime Service
Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant to the R.F.A. on 9 Nov 1914 and entered France in Dec 1914. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1915 and killed in action at Fricourt on the Somme.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
