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Military service
Service number:
1045998
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
20th Bn.
Birth:
September 15, 1894
Detroit
Enlistment:
April 23, 1917
Windsor, Ontario
Death:
November 10, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 24 - 26 - 30
Additional information
Son of J. Monroe Smith and Kate Smith, of 9136, Lafayette Blod West, Detroit, Michigan. Served in United States Cavalry on Mexican Border in 1916. Enlisted in 142nd Bn. Scottish Highlanders, Canadian Inf. His brother, Leon R. Smith, of the 6th United States Marines, also fell at Belleau Wood, 29 June 1918.
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private Homer Emmett Smith
Digital gallery of
Private Homer Emmett Smith
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 328 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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