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William Baines Smith

Corporal

Service No. 9264

Age 25

Died on 18 April 1915

King's Own Scottish Borderers

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Husband of Elsie Smith, of 10, Lime St., Lee Mount, Halifax, Yorks.

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Henry Harrison

William, O valiant heart, who to your glory came through dust and ashes …. your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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William, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, but, as a former soldier in the 1st and 7th Battalio...

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