SMITH S.

Sidney Arthur Smith

Private TRS/788504

Training Reserve
transf. to (351221) Western Command Labour Centre, Labour Corps

Sidney Arthur Smith died on Saturday 28th October 1918, aged 20 years, and was buried in SUTTON-IN-ASHFIELD CEMETERY, Nottinghamshire on 31st October 1918. (Grave Ref C. 4908)

He was the son of Ernest Isaac and Jane Smith, of Doreen Villas, Lawn Road, Sutton-in-Ashfield. Sidney Smith was buried on the same day, and in the same burial plot as his father, who had died on Friday 27th October.

Notts Free Press - In Memoriam - 8th November 1918

Smith - In loving memory of my dear Husband, Ernest Isaac Smith, who died Oct. 27th 1918; also my dear son Pte. Sidney Smith, who died Oct. 28th 1918, at Carrington Military Hospital. Not now, but in the coming years, We'll meet them in the better land, We'll read the meaning of our tears, And then sometime we'll understand. - From sorrowing Wife, also Mother, and Brothers Bert, Arthur, John and Harold in France.

From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Labour Corps’

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Research by Heather Faulkes