World War 1
Search the known records to date of those lost from the wider Alnwick area in World War 1
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Thomas Smith
Forename(s):
Thomas
Surname:
Smith
Initial(s):
T
Service Number:
17307
Rank:
Private
Regiment:
Northumberland Fusiliers, 8th (Service) Battalion
Died:
03/11/1915
Buried:
Hill 10 Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey
Service History:
Enlisted at Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.
Died of wounds received, Mediterranean.
Background:
Born about 1891, at Rothbury, Northumberland, the son of James & the late Hannah Smith, of 14, Bullen Green, Morpeth, Northumberland.
In 1911, the family lived at 13, Bullen Green. James (53) was a Farm Labourer; his wife appears to have been 48; Smith & a younger brother, John James (15), were both Colliery Labourers (Underground), & the youngest brother, William (12) was still at school.
Smith was the husband of Lucy Mabel Smith, of Mill House, Dam Side, Morpeth. Children are mentioned but not specified in the UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929 (available via Ancestry.co.uk).
Local Memorial:
(Possibly) Mitford, Memorial Plaque in St. Mary Magdalene Church
(Source: newmp.org.uk)