Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History BookAboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =SMITH, ALBERT EDWARD=, Telegraphist, J. 1624, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =SMITH, ALBERT ERNEST=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3044), S.S. 100458, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =SMITH, ALBERT JAMES=, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 1139), Late Chat./9954, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =SMITH, ALFRED=, Petty Officer, 1st Class, 155565, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =SMITH, ALFRED EDWARD=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./17617, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =SMITH, AMOS CHARLES=, Bugler, No. 9377, 2nd Battn. King's Own Yorkshire L.I., eldest _s._ of Shipley Vickers Smith, of 2, The Grove, Shaw Heath, Stockport, District Agent, Prudential Insurance Co., formerly of the same regt. (who served in Malta, India, Afghanistan and the Jhobb Valley Expedition), by his wife, Clara, dau. of the late James Harris, of Morley, Contractor (who served with the 31st Regt. in the Crimean War), and grandson of Amos Charles Smith, of Sheffield; _b._ Sutton-upon-Hull, co. York, 4 Dec. 1892; educ. Middleton Street School, Hull, and Army School; enlisted as a Bugler in the 1st King's Own Yorkshire L.I., 15 Oct. 1907; served in South Africa, and was afterwards stationed at Hong Kong and Singapore, where he was when war broke out. His battn. was ordered home. While at home he was taken ill with malarial fever, but hearing that his battn. had been ordered to the Front, despite the advice of the doctor, he immediately set off to rejoin it at Winchester. He arrived too late, however, and was sent to the 3rd Battn. at Hull, but left for France a fortnight later with a draft for the 2nd Battn. (13th Brigade, 5th Division), and died on 7 April, 1915, of wounds received on the 5th, near Hill 60; _unm._ A comrade wrote: "I am sorry to state that he got shot on Easter Monday, losing a leg. He bore his pain well, not a word of complaint and still merry and bright. Shells were dropping around us all the time and, to make matters worse, it rained all day." His only brother, Shipley Vicker Smith, Bandsman, No. 10428, King's Own Yorkshire L.I., is now (1916) on active service. [Illustration: =Amos Charles Smith.=] =SMITH, ALFRED LEONARD=, Petty Officer, 2nd Class (R.F.R., B. 3599), 189658, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =SMITH, ARCHIBALD=, Sergt., No. 12802, 2nd Battn. The Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 14 March, 1915. =SMITH, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 1155, A Squadron, Northamptonshire Yeomanry, only _s._ of Charles Slater Smith, of Norton House, Tenby, Farmer, by his wife, Bertha, dau. of Joseph Hill; _b._ River View, Woodford, near Thrapston, Northants, 24 Sept. 1890; educ. Lewisham College, Weston-super-Mare; volunteered and joined the Northants Yeomanry, 8 Sept. 1914; left with his regt. for the Front in the 8th Division in Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 9 March, 1915; _unm._ Buried, Walle Farm, Pont Riqueult, Lestrem, Flanders. He was a well-known and successful rider under the National Hunt Rules. [Illustration: =Arthur Smith.=] =SMITH, ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5299), 297535, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =SMITH, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 2108, 1/6th Battn. Prince of Wales's Own West Yorkshire Regt (T.F.), _s._ of Richard Smith, of 9, Brighton Street, Cromwell Road, Shipley, by his wife Sarah Elizabeth, dau. of John Sutcliffe; _b._ Shipley, co. Yorks, 30 July, 1897; educ. Baildon Wood Bottom Board School; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the West Yorkshires, 7 Aug. 1914; went to France, 15 April, and was killed in action at Rue Petillon, 3 June, 1915, being shot by a sniper; _unm._ Buried in Rue Petillon. =SMITH, ARTHUR=, Stoker, R.N.R., S. 3016, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =SMITH, ARTHUR GILLIAT=, Lieut., 26th Field Coy., Royal Engineers, only surviving _s._ of Harold Gilliat Smith, of 37, Kenilworth Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea, by his wife, Laura Sybil, dau. of the late Philip Grove, of Eastcote, Northants, and grandson of the late Joseph Smith, formerly of The Oaks, Woodmansterne, co. Surrey; _b._ Blackheath, S.E., 3 July, 1888; educ. Rugby School and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.E., 18 Dec. 1908, and promoted Lieut. 4 Feb. 1911; left for France, 15 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near Klein Zillebeke, during the First Battle of Ypres, 1 Nov. following; _unm._ His commanding officer wrote: "I have lost a loyal friend and a most keen and efficient officer.... He died a fine death, gallantly leading his section against the Germans." [Illustration: =Arthur Gilliat Smith.=] =SMITH, ARTHUR GUY=, Lieut., R.N., 2nd _s._ of Capt. Charles Valentine Smith, R.N., of the Hydrographic Department, Admiralty, and 17, Woodfield Road, Ealing, W., by his wife, Josefa Francis, dau. of the Hon. Robert Butler, Receiver General of the Bahamas; _b._ Poona, India, 10 July, 1891; educ. Alperton Hall, Wembley, and the Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges; entered the Navy, 5 May, 1904; became Midshipman 15 July, 1909; Sub. Lieut. 15 July, 1912; and Lieut. 15 July 1914; was mainly employed in the surveying service at Home and in the West Indies in H.M. ships Research and Mutine; joined H.M.S. Good Hope in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action in the battle off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; _unm._ =SMITH, ARTHUR MARK=, Private, No. 2550, 8th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France; died 26 April, 1915, of wounds received in action at St. Jean; _m._ =SMITH, ARTHUR PHILIP=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 308719, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =SMITH, BERNARD RIDLEY WINTHROP=, Capt., 1st Battn. Scots Guards, only _s._ of Francis Nicholas Smith, of Wingfield Park, Ambergate, Derby, J.P., D.L., by his wife, Constance Ella, dau. of the late Rev. Benjamin Winthrop, of 82, Cromwell Road, London, S.W., and a nephew of Sir Gerard Smith, K.C.M.G., formerly Lieut.-Col. Scots Guards; _b._ at Duffield, near Derby, 19 Dec. 1882; educ. at Carter's, Farnborough; Eton College (Evans' House), and Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A.); gazetted 2nd Lieut., Scots Guards, 1 Aug. 1905, promoted Lieut. 14 May, 1910, and Capt. 1 Nov. 1914; was seconded for service under the Colonial Office and appointed A.D.C. to Sir Henry Belfield, K.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the East African Protectorate, 13 Aug. 1913; obtained leave from the Colonial Office to rejoin his regt. on the outbreak of war; returned to France direct in Oct. 1914; was wounded in action in the trenches near Y |