No.3604, Lance Corporal, Hezekiah SMITH
Aged 20
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Hezekiah Smith was born in Chevington (1st qtr 1897 Thingoe 4a:817) son of John Riley and Susannah SMITH (née CLARKE)
1901 census...Aged 4, he was at Chedburgh Hall, house of the MARSH brothers, farmers, with his father John SMITH [42] horsekeeper; his mother Susannah [45] domestic servant, both born Chevington 1911 census...Aged 14, a telegraph messenger, he was at Chevington Lodge with his parents, father a waggoner on farm. His mother had lost one of her two children. On the pension card his parents were in Hargrave. |
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He enlisted in Hargrave. He died from enteric fever in Egypt.
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