Great War Dundee
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John Hunter Smith
Military Information
- Date of enlistment:
- Place of enlistment: Dundee
- Service no: 7465
- Rank: Private
- Service Occupation:
- Awards:
- Regiment/Service: Black Watch
- Unit/Ship: 1st Battalion
- Place of Death: France
- Age at Death: 36
- Date of Death: 24.09.1914
- Burial Country: France
- Cemetery: City of Paris Cemetery, Bagneux
- Grave/Mem Ref no: 19.I.B.9.
Personal Information
- Date of Birth:
- Place of Birth: Dundee
- Address:
- Occupation:
- Mother:
- Father:
- Siblings:
- Spouse:
Mary Houston (formally Smith) 119 Gorgie Rd, Edinburgh
- Children:
Margaret, born 25.10.1908, George, born 10.03.1912 & Eliza, born 27.06.1906.
More about John Hunter Smith
For reasons unknown this man is not listed on the original Dundee Roll of Honour.
On 24 September 1914, 7465 Pte. John Hunter Smith, 1st Black Watch, died of wounds in France, aged 36.
He is buried in the City of Paris Cemetery, Bagneux, Hauts-de-Seine, France, 19. I. B. 9.
DUNDEE SOLDIER KILLED. Amongst the 1st Black Watch men who have died from the result of wounds received at the front is John Smith, a former pupil of the Dundee Orphanage Institution. Smith was in the famous retreat from Mons. The Evening Telegraph and Post, Friday, 4 December 1914, 2.
Information supplied by Gary Thomson
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