Selected Families and Individuals
Notes
Samuel SMITH
Private 9727 1st Btn Notts & Derby Rgt. Sherwood Foresters was a Regular
Soldier, probably se rving in India
when the First World War started.
He would have been recalled to England for retraining in preparation to be sent
to France & Flanders, and this culminated in arrival in F & F to
relieve the BEF 5th November 1914, one d ay before Samuel SMITH died 'of
wounds' in Chatham Military Hospital, Kent.
New info on his service came with a download from National Archives of his
medal card, showed him as service no 9727 2nd Btn Notts & Derby, not 1st.,
& a disembarkation date of 8th Sept. 1914.
This means he was a part of the BEF, and 'over there' earlier than realised.
"The 2nd Battalion was part of the British Expeditionary Force which
landed in France in
September 1914 and went straight into the bitter fighting on the
Aisne. On 20 September (the anniversary of the
Battle of the Alma
- a previous Battle
Honour of the 95th) the Battalion carried out
a counter-attack to plug a gap in the British Lines. The casualties
were almost identical with those at the Alma;
17 out of 22 officers
and 214 out of 930 other ranks. Reinforced, the Battalion fought
another major battle in October at Ennettiere on the way to Ypres,
holding a vastly superior German force for 48 hours and losing in
the process 16 officers and 710 other ranks."
If he received his wounds 'over there' (as part of the 1st), it's not clear how
he died only one day later in Blighty, but makes sense as part of the 2nd.
His Widow, Ada, supported their son Samuel William with help from family, until
her Brother-in-Law Charles was de-mobbed in 1918, when they married at All
Souls Church in Radford Notting ham, the same Church she married Charles's
brother Samuel in 1913.
Ada MILLER
DEATH: mar qtr 1956 3c 436 Ada
Miller was born 16th March 1888 at Knights
Place, Court Street, Hyson Green Nottingham
Charles SMITH
BIRTH: 7b 145 mar qtr 1890
DEATH: June qtr 1931 7b 379
Ada MILLER
DEATH: Mar qtr 1956 3c 436 Ada Miller
was born 16th March 1888 at Knights Place, Court Street, Hyson Green Nottingham
Annie JAMSON
BIRTH: dec qtr 1871 Nottingham 7b 237
Henry Hutchison PYZER
BIRTH: 15 639 Southwell mar 1848
Percy HUDSON
BIRTH: sep qtr 1880 Nottingham 7b 229
Mary Ann Ellen PORTER
DEATH: Dec qtr 1892 7b 215 Nottingham