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Harry Marsden Smith Lieutenant 1st Battalion The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Harry Marsden Smith was born in Bolton on 13 July 1892. He was the son of Joseph and Emma Smith of 108 Davenport Street, Bolton. His father, Joseph Smith, was an insurance agent for the Prudential. Extract from the Headmaster's Report for the school year 1909-10 "In the Thomasson Scholarship Examinations this year we were peculiarly successful. [...] H.M. Smith gained the University Scholarship of £150 a year for three years. This Scholarship is one of the most valuable, if not the most valuable, in England. That this has been won by one of our boys - a boy who had to compete a year before his most suitable time because of the conditions of the examinations - is to myself and all the staff, a subject of sincere elation. The Leaving Scholarship of £50 a year for three years has this year been won by Smith. Since, however, the same boy won the valuable Thomasson Exhibition, his parents and he, of their own free will, have passed on the Scholarship to another boy. I am sure such a noble and generous action on the part of both Smith and his parents is worthy of record here." Harry joined the Officers Training Corps while at Oxford University. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 24 December 1914. He was wounded on 5 July 1915. He later transferred to The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and returned to France with them 30 January 1917. Less than a month later he died of wounds in a German hospital after being reported missing the previous day “from the result of his right arm having been torn away, right leg shatterered and a wound in the left leg.” It appears that Harry was buried by the Germans soon after his death and his remains brought to St Souplet Cemetery after the Armistice.

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