SMITH Frederick Albert

  • First Name(s):
    Frederick 
    Albert 
  • Surname:
    SMITH
  • Service Number:
    59142
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Devonshire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    1st Garrison Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    15th April 1917
  • Age At Death:
    26
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Mikra Memorial, Greece.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Albert Edward and Rosanna Smith, 29 Lower Howsell, Malvern Link, Worcestershire

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

SMITH Frederick Albert Is Named On These Memorials

Malvern Link C of E School now in Malvern Link St Matthias C of E Primary School
Malvern Link St Matthias Church WW1 Memorial
Malvern WW1 War Memorial

Further Information About SMITH Frederick Albert

Appears in the Worcester/Worcestershire Roll of Honour Book for army casualties located in Worcester Cathedral as F. Smith, The Devonshire Regiment.

Malvern News, Saturday 12th May 1917:
Mr and Mrs A E Smith, Lower Howsell, have received information that their only son, Pte Frederick Albert Smith, Devonshire Regiment drowned on the 15th April. He was 26 and unmarried. Mr A C Nott, grocer of Malvern, formerly employed him. He joined the RHA soon after the outbreak of War, but whilst training on Salisbury Plain contracted double pneumonia and was discharged. In 1916 he joined the Worcestershire Regiment and transferred to the Devonshire Regiment shortly before he sailed. He was the organ blower at St Matthias Church.

A photograph of Private F.A. Smith of Malvern Link can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 19th May 1917, available at Worcestershire Archives.

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