Donald, Clifford and Alan Smith

In loving memory of

 

6469 Private Donald Griffin Smith, 17th. Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, attached to 8th. Battalion, Royal Fusiliers.

The son of Walter, a gentleman farmer, and Eleanor Bloom Smith, nee Bloom, of 'Oakleigh', Swaffham, Norfolk.

Brother of,

Walter Richard, b. 1886

Clifford Day, b. 1891

Fernley, b. 1892

Dorothy Madge, b. 1895

Audrey Eleonor, b. 1898

Alan Raymond Noel, b. 1900

Ronald Edward, b. 1901

Kathleen Alice Norah, b. 1902

Jessie Elizabeth, b. 1903

Donald died of wounds, aged 22, on Wednesday 18th. October 1916. He is buried in Grave: XII. A. 11. at Étaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France with the personal inscription

'R.I.P.'

 

Lt Clifford Day Smith, 5th. Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, attached to 9th. Battalion, Norfolk Regiment.

Born in 1891.

Father of Peter Armstrong Smith, b. 1918.

Clifford killed in action on Wednesday 23rd. October 1918. He was buried at Basuel, France in marked Grave: 4.D. 7 at map reference R.9.c.6.7. He was later reburied in Grave: IV. D. 7. at Highland Cemetery, le Cateau, Nord, France.

 

Lt Alan Raymond Noel Smith, 130th. King George's Own Baluchis (Jacob's Rifles).

Born in 1900 at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire

Alan died, aged 19, on Thursday 10th. July 1919. He was buried in Grave: Y. H. 22. at Rawalpindi War Cemetery. On 28th. November 1966 his remains were exhumed and reburied in Grave: 2. C. 10. at Rawalpindi War Cemetery, Punjab, Pakistan with the personal inscription

'PEACE PERFECT PEACE'

 

Sons of WALTER and ELEANOR SMITH, of this parish.

 

 

This memorial is in the parish church of St. Peter & St. Paul at Swaffham, Norfolk.

 

 

 

Done