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Arthur Eldred Smith

In memory of:

Gunner Arthur Eldred Smith

May 13, 1917

Military Service

Service Number:

1257605

Age:

20

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Garrison Artillery

Division:

9th Siege Battery

Additional Information

Born:

November 22, 1896
Pembroke Dock, Wales

Enlistment:

July 20, 1916
Halifax, Nova Scotia

Son of Ellen (Scone) Smith and Henry Smith of Esquimalt, British Columbia.

Commemorated on Page 327 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

LIEVIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

IV. D. 16.

Location:

Lievin is a small town in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 3.5 kilometres west of Lens. The Communal Cemetery is on the south-west side of the town on the road to Givenchy-en-Gohelle.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Memorial– The inscription on the memorial to the dead of the 9th Canadian Siege Battery located at Royal Artillery Park in Halifax, Nova Scotia, showing Arthur Eldred Smith's name (incorrectly inscribed on the memorial as A.S. Smith). Photo taken by Tom Tulloch.

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    Memorial – The inscription on the memorial to the dead of the 9th Canadian Siege Battery located at Royal Artillery Park in Halifax, Nova Scotia, showing Arthur Eldred Smith's name (incorrectly inscribed on the memorial as A.S. Smith). Photo taken by Tom Tulloch.
  • Memorial– The memorial to the dead of the 9th Canadian Siege Battery at Royal Artillery Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia, on which Arthur Smith's name is inscribed. Photograph by Tom Tulloch.

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    Memorial – The memorial to the dead of the 9th Canadian Siege Battery at Royal Artillery Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia, on which Arthur Smith's name is inscribed. Photograph by Tom Tulloch.
  • Photo of ARTHUR ELDRED SMITH– From the Daily Colonist of September 30, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y253uvic#page/n0/mode/1up

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    Photo of ARTHUR ELDRED SMITH
    Photo of ARTHUR ELDRED SMITH – From the Daily Colonist of September 30, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y253uvic#page/n0/mode/1up
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Daily Colonist of June 1, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y149uvic#page/n0/mode/1up

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    Newspaper clipping
    Newspaper clipping – From the Daily Colonist of June 1, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y149uvic#page/n0/mode/1up

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