SOLDIER INFORMATION FROM OTHER SOURCES
THE LIST BELOW IS MADE UP OF OTHER WW1 SOLDIERS SENT TO ME BY OTHER PEOPLE
HILL THOMAS, Private 3151, 44th Coy., Machine Gun Corps., (Inf) died on Thursday July 6, 1916, son on Samuel Hill and Ellen Reed Hill of
5 Vicarage Lane Kingsthorpe. Commemorated on the Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France [CONTACT mclarke@accel.net]
HILL GEORGE, Able Seaman, (RFR/P/)/B5058. R.N. H.M.S. Good hope, Royal Navy who died on Sunday, November 1st, 1914, aged 29, at the
Battle of Coronel, son of Samuel Hill and Ellen Reed Hill of 5 Vicarage Lane, Kingsthorpe. Commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial,
Hamshire, United Kingdom. [CONTACT mclarke@accel.net]
PALMER GEORGE
47344
"Z" Coy. 18th. Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers.
Died of wounds Monday 5th August 1918 age 23.
Son of Frederick and Jane PALMER of 78, Cedar Road, Northampton. Born in Kingsthorpe, Northampton.
Cemetery:
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West Vlaanderen, Belgium.
He was born at the Cock Inn (Hotel now) the 2nd son and had joined the army prior to 1914. His father was Landlord of the Cock Inn.
The family moved on to The Red Lion at Brayfield. Their last son was born there, my husband's father, Reginald.
Frederick died in 1903 of blood poisoning after being cut by glass while trying to stop a fight in the bar.
George was away from the front line when he was injured. One soldier brought back an unexploded
shell from the front line, started to play around with it, threw it and it hit George mortally wounding him.
His brother Reginald was posted quite close and was able to go and see his brother before he died.
Jean Palmer's email address is: johnjeanpalmer@shaw.ca
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SMART HERBERT, Cheshire Regiment [WEB SITE http://kingjimmy.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk]
SMITH WALTER, Suffolk Regiment contact wally@perfectandson.co.uk
Walter Smith writes,
"Walter Smith was born in Northamptonshire.
At the time of WW1 I believe he lived in Fitzroy Terrace in
Northampton. He joined the army in June 1916 and was
sent to the Western Front , he became a Sergeant in the
Suffolk Regiment, he served in engagements at the Somme,
Ypres, and Cambrai,he was awarded the Military Medal.
In 1918 he was taken prisoner, and held captive until the
End of the War. In 1919 he returned to 14 Fitzroy Terrace.
He had been married in 1914 to Blanche Dora Kathleen
Pettit, also of Northampton,he worked in the Shoe Trade.
They had two sons Walter Henry Smith (my Father) and Leslie Smith,
the Family then moved to London. If anybody has any information
about my grandfather please contact me at :-
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