Hello,
All we know is:
He was born on 17th January 1907, although we are struggling to find a record of his birth as he may not have been registered under Smith. We are waiting for a birth certificate to confirm his, and his sisters, mother.
In 1911 he was living at 16 Little Europa Place, Battersea, with his father Thomas William Smith, sister Ellen Violet (listed as Duffield), (step?) mother Eunice Martha Duffield and (step? half?) sister Eunice Elizabeth Duffield (her father, Eunice seniors husband, died when she was two. We are waiting for birth certificates to confirm whether Eunice Martha was also Ellen Violet and Thomas' mother).
I think I have found his father in 1891 and 1901, also in Little Europa Place, suggesting he was born in Battersea.
Eunice Martha Duffield and Thomas Smith senior married in 1912.
In 1926 he was living with his family at 55 Bridge Road West, Battersea - the family owned a building supplies/reclamation yard shop, T. Smith/T.Smith and Son. We have the business listed in the Kelly's Directory.
He married in 1950 in Cambridgeshire, where he had moved to in the mid 1940's as he had family and business connections here. They did not have any children, and he passed away in 1984.
We know that the 30th Somerset Light Infantry went to Tripoli, and he brought his nieces lockets back from Rome. It would be fantastic to know more about his time in the army!
