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Military service
Age:
20
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
3rd Bde.
Death:
October 12, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. C. 12.
Additional information
Son of Algernon St. Albans Smith and Mary Smith (nee Deune), of White House, Gore's Landing, Ontario. Educated at St. Alban's School, Brockville, Ontario, of which he was Captain and Gold Medallist. Entered Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, Aug., 31, 1914, and in June 23rd, 1915, passed out, having been granted a commission in the Canadian Field Artillery. Born at Peterborough, Ontario.
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Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 1036 Lieut Harold Percival Smith (RMC 1914) was the son of Algernon St. Albans Smith and Mary Smith (nee Deune), of White House, Gore's Landing, Ontario. He was educated at St. Alban's School, Brockville, Ontario, of which he was Captain and Gold Medallist. He entered Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, Aug., 31, 1914, and in June 23rd, 1915, passed out, having been granted a commission in the Canadian Field Artillery. He served with the Canadian Field Artillery, 3rd Bde. He died on 12 Oct 1916. He was buried in the Albert Communal Cemetery Extension in Somme, France. -
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Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 1036 Lieut Harold Percival Smith (RMC 1914) was the son of Algernon St. Albans Smith and Mary Smith (nee Deune), of White House, Gore's Landing, Ontario. He was educated at St. Alban's School, Brockville, Ontario, of which he was Captain and Gold Medallist. He entered Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, Aug., 31, 1914, and in June 23rd, 1915, passed out, having been granted a commission in the Canadian Field Artillery. He served with the Canadian Field Artillery, 3rd Bde. He died on 12 Oct 1916. He was buried in the Albert Communal Cemetery Extension in Somme, France. -
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Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 1036 Lieut Harold Percival Smith (RMC 1914) was the son of Algernon St. Albans Smith and Mary Smith (nee Deune), of White House, Gore's Landing, Ontario. He was educated at St. Alban's School, Brockville, Ontario, of which he was Captain and Gold Medallist. He entered Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, Aug., 31, 1914, and in June 23rd, 1915, passed out, having been granted a commission in the Canadian Field Artillery. He served with the Canadian Field Artillery, 3rd Bde. He died on 12 Oct 1916. He was buried in the Albert Communal Cemetery Extension in Somme, France. -
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1036 Lieut Harold Percival Smith (RMC 1914) was the son of Algernon St. Albans Smith and Mary Smith (nee Deune), of White House, Gore's Landing, Ontario. He was educated at St. Alban's School, Brockville, Ontario, of which he was Captain and Gold Medallist. He entered Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, Aug., 31, 1914, and in June 23rd, 1915, passed out, having been granted a commission in the Canadian Field Artillery. He served with the Canadian Field Artillery, 3rd Bde. He died on 12 Oct 1916. He was buried in the Albert Communal Cemetery Extension in Somme, France. -
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From the Toronto Star Weekly c.1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Star Weekly c.1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lieutenant Harold Percival Smith
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Lieutenant Harold Percival Smith
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Lieutenant Harold Percival Smith
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Lieutenant Harold Percival Smith
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Page 164 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ALBERT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Somme, France
Albert is a town on the River Ancre in the Department of the Somme, 28 kilometres north-east of Amiens. The ALBERT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION is on the south-east side of Albert and the junction of the roads to Fricourt and Meaulte, and the Extension is entirely enclosed by it.
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