Oldham Historical Research Group

'THE GREAT WAR',     'THE WAR TO END WAR',     'WORLD WAR 1'
'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
- Only the monstrous anger of the guns.'
                                                                                                  from 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' by Wilfred Owen

1914 - 1918

St. Paul's Methodist Church, Shaw
Memorial Autograph Book

St Paul's Methodist church WW1 Memorial Autograph Book - Private David Smith, PS/7836

Private David Smith, PS/7836
20th Royal Fusiliers (U.P.S.)
Enlisted 12th June 1915
Wounded 20th July 1916: taken as a P.O.W.
Died of wounds 8th October 1916
Age 19

David was the son of John Alexander and Dorothy Smith,
On the 1911 census he was still at school and living with his parents and 3 siblings, at Midland Bank House, Shaw.

CWGC.

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Contributed by : Gillian Ashworth for St. Paul's Methodist Church, Shaw
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