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Theodore Thomas Smith

In memory of:

Second Lieutenant Theodore Thomas Smith

September 29, 1918

Military Service

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Air Force

Division:

11th Squadron

Additional Information

Commemorated on Page 593 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

N/A

Location:

The Arras Flying Services Memorial is in the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, which is in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle in the western part of the town of Arras, near the Citadel, approximately 2 kilometres due west of the railway station.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Photo of Theodore Thomas Smith– (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.

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    Photo of Theodore Thomas Smith
    Photo of Theodore Thomas Smith – (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.
  • Press Clipping– From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918". McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926.

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    Press Clipping
    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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    Newspaper Clipping
    Newspaper Clipping – From the Toronto Star for 4 October 1918, page 3.

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