SMITH Charles Edward

  • First Name(s):
    Charles 
    Edward 
  • Surname:
    SMITH
  • Service Number:
    2013727
  • Rank:

    Driver

  • Conflict:
    WW2
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Engineers
  • Corps:
    Corps of Royal Engineers
  • Regiment:
    Royal Engineers
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    20th February 1944
  • Age At Death:
    29
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Droitwich (St Nicholas) Churchyard, Droitwich, Worcestershire, England, S.E. of Church.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Charles and Ann Smith, of Droitwich; husband of Edna Smith, of Droitwich

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

SMITH Charles Edward Is Named On These Memorials

Droitwich War Memorial

Further Information About SMITH Charles Edward

A letter from the Reverend W.A. Trippass, St Nicholas, Droitwich dated 23rd May 1950 can be found within war records held at Worcestershire Archives requesting that Charles Edward Smith be added to the county roll of honour.

The following information has been researched and transcribed by Peter Kennedy:
Charles lived at 17 Brookside Droitwich and died in hospital at Hayley Green, Halesowen, where he had been for 6 weeks.  He had been transferred from a military hospital in Essex.  He was educated at St Peters School and before the war he had worked as a stoker at the borough gasworks.  He had 1 child.

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