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Sapper EDWARD SMITH

Service Number: 426299
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

422nd (West Lancs) Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 07 June 1917

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOP STORE CEMETERY

Plot I. Row A. Grave 52.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry Smith and the late E. A. Smith, of 55, Chapel Street, St. Helens, Lancashire. Youngest son and third to make the supreme sacrifice.
  • Personal Inscription BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES LEFT BEHIND.
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Buried or commemorated at

HOP STORE CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 249
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