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Robert Wright Smith |
Robert Wright Smith
CWGC: (Robert Wright Smith)
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment: Highland Light Infantry, 6th Battalion
Date of Death: 12th February 1917
Age: 26
Buried: Auchonvillers Military Cemetery
Additional Information: Son of David and Agnes Smith, Tollcross. Minister of Church of Scotland, M.A., B.D.
SNWM: (Robert Wright Smith)
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment: Highland Light Infantry, 6th Battalion (Territorial)
Date of Death: 12th February 1917
Cause of Death: Killed in Action
SDGW: (Robert Wright Smith)
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment: Highland Light Infantry, 6th (City of Glasgow) Battalion (Territorial)
Date of Death: 12th February 1917
Cause of Death: Killed in Action
MIC:
Robert Wright Smith, Second Lieutenant, Highland Light Infantry
Medal Entitlement: British War & Victory Medals.
Address: D. Smith Esq., Eversley, Carmyle Avenue, Tollcross, Glasgow
Soldiers’ Effects:
Second Lieutenant R. W. Smith, 6th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Killed in Action 12th February 1917
Glasgow Herald, 19th February 1917. ‘Deaths on Service’
Smith. Killed in action on 12th inst., Robert Wright Smith., B.D., aged 26, Second Lieutenant, Highland Light Infantry, elder son of Mr and Mrs David Smith, Eversley, Carmyle Avenue, Tollcross
Listed on Tollcross Y.M.C.A. Memorial: Robert W. Smith
Tollcross Cemetery
Erected by David Smith in loving memory of his children
Jane Wright died 29th December 1903 aged 6 years
Agnes T. Wauchope died 24th October 1916 aged 16 years
Rev. Robert W. Smith, M.A., B.D., 2nd Lieutenant, H.L.I
Killed in action at Serre, France 12th February 1917 aged 26 years
The above David Smith died 15th November 1928 aged 66 years
1891 Census, Living at 165 Bellfield Street, Dennistoun
Father David Smith, age 29, Engineer’s Patternmaker, born Glasgow
Mother Agnes T. Smith, age 25, born Glasgow
Child: Robert W. Smith, age 11 months, born Glasgow
