WILFRED GEORGE SMITH
WILF
Born: 17th October 1917, Lower Holbrook, Suffolk.
Died: 10th December 1945; age 28; died at R.M.H. Sydney, of Septicaemia following Appendicitis Abcess. Death considered aggravated by Malnutrition whilst a P.O.W.
Residence: Ipswich.
Captured Christmas Day 1941 at Hong Kong
PoW camp Sham Shui Po – liberated on the 5th September 1945 and transported to Australia by the H.M. Hospital Ship ‘Oxfordshire.’
Rank: Lance Bombardier; Service Number: 851853.
Regiment: Royal Artillery, 8 Coast Artillery.
Grave Reference:
3A.A.7.
Rookwood Crematorium.
New South Wales,
Australia.
Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Charles & Annie Maud Smith, of Ipswich.
Father: Charles Smith, born April 1889, Harkstead, Suffolk. A Forester.
Mother: Annie Maud Smith (nee Potter), born March 1886, Holbrook, Suffolk – died 1944, Holbrook.
Probate to Charles Smith – father.
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