Harold Leslie Smith

History while in the forces

28 Feb 1917: in training in England up to February 1915 when his Battalion went to France. Was wounded (slightly) twice in a fortnight July and August 1915 and was killed in action in an attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt on October 14th 1915.
Surname
Smith
Forename
Harold Leslie
Service number
2175
Rating or rank
Private
Regiment or Other Unit
8th (Sherwood Foresters) Battalion Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Branch
Sneinton, Nottingham
Date of Birth
04 Nov 1896
Date of birth
1896
Date of Entering Bank's Service
29 Nov 1912
Date of Joining HM Forces
07 Sep 1914
Date of Death
1915