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Lieutenant MICHAEL PALING SMITH

Service Number: 69699
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

2/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 27 May 1940

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OIGNIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Row A. Grave 6.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest and Winifred Daisy Smith, of Little Hallam, Ilkeston, Derbyshire.
  • Personal Inscription MAY GOD RECEIVE HIS SOUL
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Buried or commemorated at

OIGNIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 20
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