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Military service
Service number:
141547
Age:
44
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
4th Bn.
Birth:
December 16, 1871
Brechin, Forfarshire, Scotland
Enlistment:
July 27, 1915
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
September 19, 1916
Courcelette, France
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Husband of Jessie (nee Leggit) Smith of Hamilton, Ontario.
Father of Private John Leggit Smith who died while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment).
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Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private Francis Smith
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Private Francis Smith
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 164 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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