Name
Algernon Beresford Smyth (MC)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/11/1914
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Mentioned in Despatches, Military Cross
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 47.
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 11 Jan 1884 son of Capt. Charles Devaynes Smyth, D.L., J P., of Bray Head House, Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland. Educated at Haileybury College 1897-1901. Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant on 2 May 1903 and Lieutenant on 20 Apr 1907.
Wartime Service
The battalion mobilised for war while stationed in Dublin and entered France at Le Havre on 16 Aug 1914. Capt Smyth was reported missing believed killed in action near Ypres.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
