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Personal data

• Name SMITH
• Initials CHW
• First name CHARLES HENRY WILLIAM
• Place of birth South Shields
• Country Durham, England
• Family Son of Helen Jane Smith (nee Niddrie), of 23, Alderson St., South Shields, and Henry Smith; brother of George, Margaret and Gladys and half brother to John Thomas Patton.
• Extra info Remembered on two South Shields’ memorials, the Miner’s Plaque 1914-18, in St Hilda’s Church, and the Cross 1914-19, at St Hilda’s and St Thomas churchyard

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment September 1914, South Shields
• Service number 14765
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 14th Bn. Durham Light Infantry "C" Coy.
• Division - Brigade 18th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 6th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career to France on 11 September 1915

Death

• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds to the head, n°17 CCS
• Date of death 21 February 1916
• Died at the age of 19
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery IV - D - 19

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