Name
Norman Samuel Smith
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/07/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
235252
Royal Welsh Fusiliers
17th Bn
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Mentioned in Despatches
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 22.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Baldock Town Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial, Baldock, Letchworth Town Memorial, Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Not on the Stevenage memorials
Pre War
Son of Samuel Smith.
Resident Stevenage. Enlisted Hitchin.
Norman worked at the Letchworth Co-operative Stores before the war. A newspaper reporting his death records Norman as "of Baldock".
Wartime Service
Formerly 5934 in the Hertfordshire Regiment.
Additional Information
Norman is also commemorated on a family headstone in Baldock Cemetery, his inscription reads:
". . . ALSO OF NORMAN SAMUEL, HIS SON (SAMUEL SMITH) KILLED AT YPRES JULY 31ST 1917. AGED 24 YEARS.
SLEEP ON BELOVED, SLEEP, ANDTAKE THY REST, LAY DOWNTHE HEAD UPON THY SAVIOURS BREAST, WE LOVE THEE WELL, BUT JESUS LOVES THEE BEST, GOOD NIGHT."
Acknowledgments
Derry Warners
Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson, Jonty Wild
