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Military service
Service number:
141766
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
1ST Bn.
Birth:
August 21, 1887
Death:
September 27, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. E. 28.
Additional information
Son of the late Rev. William Smith, Minister of St. Paul's (South) Parish Church, Dundee, and of his wife, Christine D. Campbell. Born at Dundee. Left Scotland for Canada in 1909.
Digital gallery of Private George Campbell Smith
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Photo of GEORGE CAMPBELL SMITH
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Pte. George Campbell Smith was born in Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland. He enlisted at Niagara Camp in the 76th Battalion C.E.F. in August 1915. Smith had previous military experience with the Scottish Volunteers and the 5th Royal Highlanders. In honoured memory. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of GEORGE CAMPBELL SMITH
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram January 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 164 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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