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Robert Smith   (2)


Robert Smith   (2)


CWGC: (Robert Smith)

Rank: Private

Regiment: Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), 165th Company

No: 102381

Date of Death: 22nd September 1917

Age: 21

Commemorated: Tyne Cot Memorial

Additional Information: Son of Samuel and Margaret Smith, 93 Drumothen Drive, Parkhead, Glasgow


SNWM:

Rank: Private

Regiment: Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

No. 102381

Formerly Royal Army Service Corps, No. M/286122

Place of Birth: Barony, Lanarkshire

Date of Death: 22nd September 1917

Place of Death: France & Flanders

Cause of Death: Killed in Action


SDGW:

Rank: Private

Regiment: Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

No. 102381

Formerly Royal Army Service Corps, No. M/286122

Place of Birth: Barony, Lanarkshire

Place of Enlistment: Glasgow

Date of Death: 22nd September 1917

Place of Death: France & Flanders

Cause of Death: Killed in Action


MIC:

Robert Smith, Private, Machine Gun Corps, No. 102381.

Medal Entitlement: British War & Victory Medals


Soldiers’ Effects:

Robert Smith, Private, Machine Gun Corps, 165th Company, No. 102381.

Killed in Action France of Belgium 20th September 1917.  Mother Margaret


Glasgow Herald, 22nd October 1917. ‘Deaths on Secrice’

Smith. Killed in action on 21st September, Robert Smith, Private, Machine Gun Corps, aged 21, fourth son of the late Samuel Smith, draper and Mrs Smith, Ardlui, Parkhead.


1901 Census, Living at 939 Great Eastern Road, Parkhead, Glasgow

Father Samuel Smith, age 55, Draper, born Glasgow

Mother Margaret Smith, age 43, born Glasgow

Children: Grace S. Smith, age 17, Draper’s Assistant, born Glasgow

Margaret Smith, age 14, Pupil Teacher, born Glasgow

Samuel Smith, age 12, Scholar, born Glasgow

Mary L. Smith, age 10, Scholar, born Glasgow

William Smith, age 8, Scholar, born Glasgow

John A. Smith, age 6, Scholar, born Glasgow

Robert Smith, age 4, born Glasgow

James Smith, age 2, born Glasgow