JAMES SMITH

Born: 1891, Ipswich.

Died: 10th July 1916; age 24; KiA.

Residence: Stevenage, Hertfordshire.

Enlistment Location: Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

Date of Entry Therein: 11th May 1915 – France.

Rank: Sapper; Service Number: 66584

Regiment: Royal Engineers, 64th Field Coy.

Medals Awarded: Victory, British War & 1915 Star.

Grave Reference:

VII.W.9.

Dantzig Alley British Cemetery,

Mametz,

Somme,

France.

Relatives Notified & Address: Son of John Smith, of 37, Handford Cut, Ipswich.

CENSUS

1911   37, Handford Cut, Ipswich.

James was 19 years old and living with his widowed father & siblings.

John Smith, 58, a Harker, born Norfolk.

Florence Smith, 22, a Packer, born Ipswich.

Elizabeth Smith, 11, born Ipswich.

William Smith, 9, born Ipswich.

1 housekeeper.

James’s mother, Harriet Creghton Smith (nee Rush), born 1861, Carleton, Norfolk- died 1909, Ipswich. Harriet was from a Traveller’s Steam Circus family. Her father James Rush was a Confectioner.

 Royal Engineers, 64th Field Coy