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Gunner SAM HEWART SMIRTHWAITE

Service Number: 776967
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Field Artillery

"A" Bty. 245th Bde.

Date of Death

Died 10 April 1918

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VLAMERTINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

XV. H. 8.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Son of Charles and Polly Smirthwaite, of 15, Battye St., Dewsbury, Yorks.
  • Personal Inscription DUTY CALLED AND HE WAS THERE
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