Thomas Smith

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Commonwealth War Graves Commission are appealing for blood relatives of Corporal Thomas Smith - Royal Fusiliers - service no :- 203689 - buried 15/4/1918 - Erith - St John the Baptist Churchyard.

Casualty of the Great War,Thomas served with the 1st Bn.
The Royal Fusiliers~Service No:203689.He was awarded the Medaille Militaire (France).

He was 22 years old and the son of Fred and Jessie Smith of The Orchard, 1 East Rd., Belvedere. He is additionally commemorated on the churchyard war memorial.

The private memorial marking the grave of Corporal Smith no longer provides adequate commemoration, the commission are in the process of producing a new headstone.

FIND A GRAVE

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110709946/thomas-smith

Bexley, Kent, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1985

Thomas Smith - 1896 - 20 April 1918 - aged 22 years
Burial Date 20 Apr 1918   Erith, Kent, England
Chapelry St John the Baptist   Erith

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UK Soldiers died in the Great War

Corporal Thomas Smith - Residence   Belvedere
Death Date 15 Apr 1918   France and Flanders
Enlistment Place Woolwich - London Regiment
Battalion   1st (City of London) Battalion (Royal Fusiliers) - Regimental Number   203689
Type of Casualty Died of wounds - Theatre of War   Western European Theatre
Comments   Formerly 6470, 2nd London Regt., M.M.

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1911 census 26 Sunny Side, Edenbridge.

Fredrick Smith   39
Jessie Smith   39
Amy Smith   16 Thomas Smith   14
Jessie Smith   11 Ivy Victoria Smith   8
Fredrick Smith   4

and probably this one - born June 1915

Smith    Christopher    Foreman    Uckfield    2b   193

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Sister - Jessie Rebecca Smith - Baptism Date:   14 Jan 1900 Edenbridge, Kent, England
Father Frederick Smith - Mother Jessie.
Still living with parents in 1939

Sister - Under Joy but should be Ivy Victoria Smith - Marriage Date 26 May 1928 Erith, Kent. Spinster.
Chapelry St John the Baptist - Erith
Father Fredrick Smith - Spouse Charles Albert Mason. Bachelor. Milkman.

Ivy V Mason - 1902 - 1965  (aged 63 years)
Registration District Maidstone   Kent
Volume 5f Page 525

Charles A Mason - 1902 - 1961  (aged 59 years)
Registration District:   Maidstone   Kent
Volume 5b Page 675

According to the probate for Ivy, there seems to be a son

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Spouse of Frederick Smith Jnr - Mary Ann Smith - 12 June 1908 - 1998 Norwich Norfolk  (aged 90 years)
Registration District   Norwich Norfolk
Register Number D22B - District and Subdistrict 6391D - Entry Number 68

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Ivy's son was born Dartford, 1929 & married 1956 in Battle, Sussex.

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Sister - Jessie Smith married 1948 Surrey to Benjamin Conely.
Registration District Surrey North Western Surrey

Volume Number 5g - Page Number 1240

death - Jessie Coneley - 16 November 1899 - 1974   (aged 74 years)
Registration District Surrey South Western Surrey
Volume 5g Page 1501

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