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Harold Smart

In memory of:

Private Harold Smart

September 29, 1916

Military Service


Service Number:

412306

Age:

23

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Nova Scotia Regiment)

Division:

25th Bn.

Additional Information


Born:

April 26, 1893
Deseronto, Ontario

Enlistment:

February 25, 1915
Belleville, Ontario

Son of Henry and Julia Ann (Moses) Smart of Deseronto, Ontario.

Brother of George Smart who suffered a gunshot wound to the right wrist at the Battle of Amiens during service with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. He left for Canada on March 31, 1919, and was discharged on April 8, 1919, in Kingston Ontario. Despite being wounded he also volunteered for service during the Second World War.

Commemorated on Page 163 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

VIMY MEMORIAL
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

N/A

Location:

Canada's most impressive tribute overseas to those Canadians who fought and gave their lives in the First World War is the majestic and inspiring Vimy Memorial, which overlooks the Douai Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge, about eight kilometres northeast of Arras on the N17 towards Lens. The Memorial is signposted from this road to the left, just before you enter the village of Vimy from the south. The memorial itself is someway inside the memorial park, but again it is well signposted. At the base of the memorial, these words appear in French and in English:

TO THE VALOUR OF THEIR COUNTRYMEN IN THE GREAT WAR AND IN MEMORY OF THEIR SIXTY THOUSAND DEAD THIS MONUMENT IS RAISED BY THE PEOPLE OF CANADA


Inscribed on the ramparts of the Vimy Memorial are the names of over 11,000 Canadian soldiers who were posted as 'missing, presumed dead' in France. A plaque at the entrance to the memorial states that the land for the battlefield park, 91.18 hectares in extent, was 'the free gift in perpetuity of the French nation to the people of Canada'. Construction of the massive work began in 1925, and 11 years later, on July 26, 1936, the monument was unveiled by King Edward VIII. The park surrounding the Vimy Memorial was created by horticultural experts. Canadian trees and shrubs were planted in great masses to resemble the woods and forests of Canada. Wooded parklands surround the grassy slopes of the approaches around the Vimy Memorial. Trenches and tunnels have been restored and preserved and the visitor can picture the magnitude of the task that faced the Canadian Corps on that distant dawn when history was made. On April 3, 2003, the Government of Canada designated April 9th of each year as a national day of remembrance of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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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)
  • Group Photo– George Smart sitting (Harold’s brother), other person is unknown.  Photo: Nancy J. Smart-Hill.  Granddaughter.
  • Memorial– A marble plaque at Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, RR 1 Deseronto, Deseronto, ON was erected by the local Mohawk community. This memorial is dedicated to the First World War veterans and war dead from the Bay of Quinte Mohawk population.

[front/devant] 
1914 ROLL OF HONOUR 1919 

MOHAWKS OF THE BAY OF QUINTE OUR VOLUNTEERS FOR KING AND COUNTRY 

Reuben Sero; Arthur Brant; -- Maracle; Thomas Mengo; John B Maracle; David Green; Austin Green; Peter Maracle; David Green; George Maracle; Con Bernhart; Philip Maracle; Isaac Maracle; Harry Barnhart; Amos Green; Ernest Brant; Wheeler Maracle; Harold Smart; George Williams; Richard Brant; William Penn; James Barnhart


OUR HEROIC DEAD 
"THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE" 
OUR VALIANT LIVING 

"WE HAVE DONE THAT WHICH WAS OUR DUTY TO DO"
http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/nic-inm/sm-rm/mdsr-rdr-eng.asp?PID=2292 

Photo Credit: D.B. Carrington

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