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  Name:
  
  
  
  Harry Webster Smith
  Regimental Number:
  
  67183 
  Rank:
  
  
  
  
  Private
   
  Battalion:
  
  
  
  25th Battalion 
  Date of Birth:
  
  
  October 1, 1887
  Place of Birth:
  
  
  Halifax, Nova Scotia 
   
  Date of Enlistment:
  
  November 12, 1914
  Place of Enlistment:
  
  Halifax, NS
  Address at Enlistment:
  
  Halifax, NS
  Age at Enlistment:
  
  27 
  Height: 5 Feet 7 Inches
  Complexion: light
  Eyes: blue
  Hair: brown
  Previous Military:
  
  Canadian Field Artillery 
  Militia Training in Yarmouth
  3 years with 1st Artillery, Halifax, NS
  Trade:
  
  
  
  Stevedore
  Marital Status:
  
  
  Single 
  Religion:
  
  
   
  Church of England 
  Next of Kin:
  
  
  Mrs Nellie Smith Mother) Halifax, NS
    
  Date of Death:
  
  
  September 21, 1916 
  Age at Death:
  
  
  29
  Cemetery:
  
  
  
  St. James Cemetery, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom 
  Grave Reference:
  
  Plot: N. H. 4.
  Commemorated on Page 164 of the First World War Book of Remembrance
  Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on April 14
  Listed on the Nominal Roll of the 25th Battalion
  Listed on the Yarmouth War Memorial
  Harry Webster Smith was the son of Henry J. and Nellie B. Smith, of Halifax, NS.   
  He enlisted at Halifax with the 25th Battalion and went overseas on the SS Saxonia arriving in England 
  on May 29, 1915.  He embarked for France on September 15, 1915.   
  He suffered a serious shell wound to his right thigh on September 15 while serving in a communication 
  trench. Returned to Folkstone in the UK by hospital ship, he was admitted to the Dover Military 
  Hospital, Kent, UK on September 21, 1916.  He died of his wounds at 10:50 am on September 21, 
  1916.
   
 
 
   
   Harry Webster Smith   
 
 
  