Great War Dundee
This is Dundee's story of those that served in the First World War, and of the people left at home
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Hugh Macdonald Smith
Military Information
- Date of enlistment:
- Place of enlistment: Dundee
- Service no: 635082
- Rank: Battery Quartermaster Sergeant
- Service Occupation:
- Awards:
- Regiment/Service: Royal Field Artillery
- Unit/Ship: 211th Brigade
- Place of Death: France
- Age at Death: 24
- Date of Death: 28.03.1918
- Burial Country: France
- Cemetery: Bienvillers Military Cemetery
- Grave/Mem Ref no: I.A.9.
Personal Information
- Date of Birth:
- Place of Birth: Cromdale, Granton-on-Spey
- Address: 107 Clepington Road, Dundee
- Occupation: Junior Sanitary Officer, Dundee Public Health Dept
- Mother:
Christina McDonald Smith, 107 Clepington Rd, Dundee
- Father:
Charles Smith, 107 Clepington Rd, Dundee
- Siblings:
Charles
- Spouse:
- Children:
More about Hugh Macdonald Smith
Hugh was the brother of Corporal Charles Smith 606, 256th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, killed in action 23/06/1916.
Hugh Smith R.F.A.
Battery – Quarter – master – Sergeant Hugh Smith, R.F.A., has been killed in action. While he was helping the men to get their dinner a shell exploded, and B.Q.M.S. Smith and two others were killed instantaneously and many others were wounded. He was a Dundee Territorial, and was mobilised at the outbreak of war, and had been in France for three years. His father served eighteen months in France, and has since died, and a brother was killed in June, 1916. Another brother is serving. Deceased was a son of Mrs C. Smith, 107 Clepington Road, Dundee, and before the war was on the staff of Dundee Public Health Department as a junior sanitary officer.
Dundee Courier 10th April 1918
Additional information and image kindly supplied by Michael Caldwell
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