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Military service
Service number:
24768
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
13th Bn.
Birth:
March 15, 1886
Liverpool, England
Enlistment:
September 23, 1914
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
October 29, 1914
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
288.
Additional information
Husband of Naomi Catherine Smith, of Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales.
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Attestation Papers
Source: Library and Archives Canada -
Attestation Papers
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Document
The circumstances of Samuel Herbert Smith's accidental death in England are described in the War Diary of the 13th Canadian Infantry Battalion of October 29, 1914. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of November 1, 1914. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist56y278uvic#mode/1up -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1914. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Samuel Herbert Smith
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Private Samuel Herbert Smith
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Private Samuel Herbert Smith
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Private Samuel Herbert Smith
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Private Samuel Herbert Smith
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Commemorated on:
Page 1 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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