Service Details
Name:
 SMITH
Given Name:
 WILLIAM GAYNER
Initials:
 W G
Service No:
 1007
Rank:
 Lance Corporal
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 2nd Regt.
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Date of Death:
 1917-10-15
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Date of Birth:
 1883-07-02
Age:
 34
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action
Additional
Information:
Son of Thomas Cox Smith and Eliza (nee Ayres) Smith, of Thornbury; husband of Marjorie Annie Smith, of City House, Thornbury, Bristol, England. Born Downend, Gloucestershire, England. Educated Castle School, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England. Served in the South African Constabulary in the ABW 1899-1902; a sanitary inspector for the Durban Municipality for 11 years. Served with Durban Light Infantry in the 1914 Rebellion and in GSWA in 1915. Commemorated on Castle School, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England; St Mary's Church, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England; the Durban Light Infantry; the Durban Corporation & Durban Cenotaph WWI Memorials. Commemorated on his daughter's gravestone in Thornbury Cemetery, Bristol, England. His brother Captain Frederick Charles Smith US Infantry also died 1 January 1919
Commemoration
Country:
 Belgium
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Locality:
 Ieper, West-Vlaanderen
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Cemetery:
 BUFFS ROAD CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 F. 1.

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