Arthur August Smith
A Photograph of my Great Great Uncle Arthur August Smith, his wife and their child.
My Great Great Uncle Arthur August Smith, born 1885 in Chelmsford, Essex. I have very little information about Arthur, we believe he was in the Army Service Corps as he is wearing spurs in the photograph but is not in any kind of cavalry uniform. My Grandmother remembers being told by her mother that Arthur served in France and was gassed, he survived the war unlike his younger brother Leonard Mark Smith who was killed in action 28th March 1918 at Arras.
CONTRIBUTOR
Mark Cass
DATE
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LANGUAGE
eng
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1
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
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