Private 31980 Thomas Smart

The St Helens Newspaper & Advertiser
Courtesy Ste M

Regiment/Unit: Loyal North Lancashire Regiment - 1st/4th Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders

Age at death: 30
Date of death: 30th of October 1917 (Tuesday)
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery Extension - I. E. 17.

BMD details:
Marriage: 14/02/1912 Thomas SMART to Bertha JONES at St Helens Parish Church. The couple had 1 child: Frederick John Smart b-1914.

Census details:
1891 - The family are transcribed as Swart. 4 years old schoolboy Thomas is living at 16 St Paul Street, St Helens with parents John (31), Ellen (30) and three siblings: Margaret (8), James (2), Nellie (5 mths). 1901 - 14 years old Thomas is living at 68 Campbell Street, St Helens with parents John (41), Ellen (40) and five siblings: Margaret (18), James (12), Nellie (10), John (8), Dora (4). 1911 - Sees 24 years old 'Painter' Thomas living at 93 Horace Street, St Helens with parents John (51), Ellen (50) and four siblings: James (22), Nellie (20), John (18), Dora (14).

Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=34]Remembered on St Helens Parish Church Memorial.[/url] Age taken from census.

[pic]tpics/31980_Smart.jpg[/pic][caption]Image courtesy of Jeff Keenan from the Local Press[/caption] [pic]imgs/WW1_headstones/SmartT_LNL.jpg[/pic][caption]The headstone of Private Thomas Smart at Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery Extension (Photograph Courtesy of Ste M.)[/caption]