Corporal PO/X 115737 Eric James Smith
Regiment: Royal Marines - H.M.S. Copra
Theatre of War: At Sea
Age at death: 19
Date of death: 6th of June 1944
Born: St Helens, Lancs.
Resided: St Helens, Lancs.
Burial / Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Family details:
Son of Peter and Ada Smith, of Eccleston, St. Helens, Lancashire.
Census details:
1939 Register - Not found. Possibly redacted and living at 55 Ormskirk Road, Rainford.
H.M.S. Cobra, Scotland, Shorebase and training centre for combined operations squadron of landing craft. Later used on D-Day.
[pic]imgs/WW2_misc/CorporalEricJmsSmith.jpg[/pic][caption]Ormskirk Advertiser 12 October 1944
Courtesy Paul Charlesworth[/caption]
[center][pic2]imgs/S1PWHYAOTV/EJSmith_zps6fd198f3.jpg[/pic2][/center][caption]The Panel on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial bearing the name of
Leading Seaman Eric James Smith[/caption]
