SMITH Walter

  • First Name(s):
    Walter 
  • Surname:
    SMITH
  • Service Number:
    34482
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Worcestershire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    10th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    20th September 1917
  • Age At Death:
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium, Panel 75 to 77.
  • Place of Birth:
    Powick, Worcestershire, resident and enlisted Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:
    Unknown
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SMITH Walter Is Named On These Memorials

Kempsey St Mary’s Church

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Listed on the memorial as Fred Smith.

Further Information About SMITH Walter

Named as Walter Smith in the St Mary’s Church Memorial Book with 10th Worcestershire Regiment and date of death. The 1911 Census records that Walter Sidney Smith, aged 16, and born in Powick, was living at Bakery Buildings, Kempsey, with his widowed mother Mary Jewell Smith originally from Bishops Cleeve, Gloucestershire, and brothers Charles James Smith 25, born in Manchester, and Leonard Court Smith 20, also born in Powick.

Walter Smith has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Tyne Cot Memorial.

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Credits: Casualty identified and researched by Dave Pugh.