SMITH H

Additional information on the memorial: Jan 1917.

Possibly Second Lieutenant Henry Smith
Queen’s Own Worcestershire Hussars (Worcester Yeomanry)
Drowned aged 38 on 1st January 1917
Husband of Mabel Esther Smith, of Oaklands, Ledbury, Herefordshire
Buried in Suda Bay War Cemetery, Greece, Grave XI. B. 13.

Second Lieutenant H. Smith 1st/1st Worcester Yeomanry, 13th Draft, Details, embarked at Southampton 20th December 1916 for service with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, disembarked at Marseilles, France on 28th December 1916. Drowned ex Ivernia 1st January 1917.

Source for additional information: The Yeomanry Cavalry of Worcestershire 1914 – 1922.

Medal Roll Index Card:
Worcester Yeomanry Sergeant 2829
Worcester Yeomanry 2nd Lieutenant
Commissioned 28th July 1916
Died 1st January 1917 – Drowned
Awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal

The following information has been researched and transcribed by Mark Dewdney:
At 10.12am on 1st January the Ivernia was torpedoed by the German submarine U47 fifty eight miles south-east off Cape Matapan in Greece. Within one hour the ship sank; the survivors were landed at Suda Bay in Crete. Thirty six crew members and eighty four troops were killed.

Appears on:
Worcester Cathedral Worcestershire Hussars with the information: 2nd Lieut
Evesham War Memorial
Evesham Rowing Club with the information: Worc. Yeo.

A photograph of Lieutenant H. Smith of Evesham can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 20th January 1917, available at Worcestershire Archives.

Or

Possibly Private Harold Smith
9th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment
Service No 30022
Resident Birmingham, enlisted Worcester
Died of wounds on 28th January 1917
Buried in Amara War Cemetery, Iraq, Grave XXVI. E. 8.

Appears on:
Possibly Worcester Guildhall
Possibly Worcester Masonic Hall with the information: Jan 1917