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Military service
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Air Force
Division:
11th Squadron
Death:
September 29, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Second Lieutenant Theodore Thomas Smith
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Press Clipping
From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918". McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926. -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star for 4 October 1918, page 3. -
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(From Stanstead College Yearbook, July 1919) Lieut. Theodore Thomas Smith, enlisted in the Royal Air Force in September 1917, after graduating in arts from McGill University. He was trained in Armour Heights, Toronto, and in Texas and went overseas in April 1918, where he received additional training at Rendcomb. In September he was ordered to the XI Squadron in France and on the 29th day of the same month was reported missing and his death was officially confirmed at a later date. Lieut. Smith had gone out with his squadron to escort a bombing party. They were attacked by 15 German machines and in the engagement his plane was struck and fell and he and his observer went down to their death. Their bodies were found about two week afterwards and buried.
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Theodore Thomas Smith
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Theodore Thomas Smith
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Theodore Thomas Smith
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Commemorated on:
Page 593 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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