I know a little bit.
His name is Roland Bagshaw Smith. He married Annie Maud Elias on 28th Aug 1912 in Caenarvonshire, Wales. They had a son, Frederick William Smith who was born in 1913 - the son was in the RAF in WW2 and got shot down but I can't find him on the CWGC. I suppose its possible to get shot down and survive.
So back to Roland, he was born in 1886 and in 1939 he was living at West Street, Alderley Edge, Cheshire recorded as a disabled serviceman. It is known in the family he had a prosthetic leg.
His service record is on Ancestry but my sub expired yesterday. Will be renewing it later today.
His parents were Frederick Septimus Bagshaw and Mary Ann. The whole family became Smiths when they moved from Staffordshire to Cheshire (apparently to avoid gambling debts). Some of their children were registered as Bagshaws but by the time they got married they were Smiths and the younger ones were given Bagshaw as a middle name and Smith as a surname.
There was another brother who I think served in WW1 - Frederick born 1881 but I can't find a service record for him. He married Daisy Snow in 1912. She is on the 1939 census as a widow. I have found a possible for Frederick in 1939 in the County Mental Hospital, Chester - right age and occupation (dairyman) and a possible death 1948. Not sure getting the death certificate will give me confirmation as the informant will be hospital superintendent.
The fourth brother was Robert Ralph Bagshaw/Smith - I haven't started researching him yet. If he went to WW1 he survived as he died in 1965.
Sorry. Probably have given you more information than you asked for but its better to have too much.
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