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Military service
Service number:
B/36846
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
July 11, 1920
Hamilton, Ontario
Enlistment:
June 21, 1940
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Dieppe, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 2
Additional information
Son of Henry and Eveline Margaret Smith. Brother of Lance Corporal Francis Herbert Smith, killed in action on 19 August 1942.
Digital gallery of Private Henry Smith
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Brookwood Memorial
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Inscription
Private HENRY SMITH is one of 18 members of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, who went missing at Dieppe on August 19, 1942 and were subsequently presumed dead, who are commemorated on this Panel at the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. -
Newspaper Clipping
Source: Hamilton Spectator, July 4, 1944 -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Henry Smith
Digital gallery of
Private Henry Smith
Digital gallery of
Private Henry Smith
Digital gallery of
Private Henry Smith
Digital gallery of
Private Henry Smith
Digital gallery of
Private Henry Smith
Digital gallery of
Private Henry Smith
Digital gallery of
Private Henry Smith
Digital gallery of
Private Henry Smith
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 115 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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