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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Kempston
• Land Bedfordshire, England
• Last residence Green End, Kempston, Bedfordshire
• Family Son of George and Mary Smart, of Green End, Kempston, Bedford; a brother, Albert Charles, also served in the same Bn; other brothers: Thomas Joseph and Edward John; three sisters, Ada Emily, Emma Mary Jane and Lucy Caroline.
• Education Church End village school, Kempston
• Profession Agricultural labourer
• Extra info Albert Charles survived, married and had seven childeren; eventually died of lung cancer in 1957 (he was gassed during WW1)

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Bedford
• Service number 16604
• Rank Private
• Medals 1914-18 service medal
• Regiment and unit 8th Bn. Bedfordshire Regiment
• Other data related to military career To France on 30 August 1915

Death

• Wounded Yser Canal Bank (near Ypres); machine gunned when rescuing his younger brother Albert Charles who was hit by shrapnel in the leg; they laid in the trench for thirteen hours before help came.
• Type of wounds Died of wounds
• Died at the age of 32
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery VI - C - 12A

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