SMITH, ALBERT, MM.

Sergeant. No 242567.

1/4th Battalion Duke of Wellington’s Regiment.

Born 5 Hey Lane, Lowerhouses, Huddersfield,

24.11.1889. Son of Mr and Mrs William

Arthur Smith, 154 Alma Terrace, Lockwood,

Huddersfield. Educated Lowerhouses National

School. Employed as a tailor’s presser by W.

S. Thomas and Company, Market Street,

Huddersfield. Single. Enlisted 16.2.1916. Awarded

the Military Medal for ‘

bravery in the field on

13.9.1918. Twice wounded. Killed in action near

Cambrai on 11.10.1918, aged 28 years. Buried

WELLINGTON CEMETERY.

Grave location:-

Plot 1, Row G, Grave 1/10.

ROH:- St. Stephen’s Church, Rashcliffe;

Lowerhouses War Memorial;

Almondbury War Memorial.

Trevor Milnes