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Private Nebuchadnezzar SMITH,  G/4143, 8th Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment,  died of wounds, (gun shot wounds to thighs & abdomen), No.3. Canadian Casualty Clearing Station, Flanders France, 11.30pm, 19th January 1917, age 37.

Born Lenham, Kent, son of George & Jane Smith, Ledgers Row, Grafty Green, Kent.

18th August 1900, Boughton Malherbe, Kent, Nebuchadnezzar Smith, age 20, married Elizabeth McMahon, spinster, Upper Street, Leeds, Maidstone, Kent. 

Children - Grace Elizabeth McMahon,, born 16th October 1899, Bearstead; Edith Smith, born, 23rd July 1903, Thurnham; George Smith, born 18th July 1906, Headcorn.


1911 Census - Saunds Farm, Charing Heath, Charing, Ashford, Kent - Nebuchadnezzar Smith, head, age 30, married, waggoner on farm, worker, born Lenham, Maidstone, Kent; Elizabeth Smith, wife, age 29, married 10 years, 3 children, born Brompton, Chelsea, London; Grace Elizabeth McMahon, daughter, age 11, school, born Hollingbourne, Kent; Edith Dorothy Smith, daughter, age 7, school, born Thurnham, Maidstone, Kent; George Smith, son, age 4, born Headcorn, Maidstone, Kent.


Previously served in 5th Buffs Territorial's, time expired.

Enlisted Maidstone, Kent, age 33 years & 306 days, height 5ft 6½ inches, weight 145lbs, fresh complexion, grey eyes, brown hair.  Resided Leeds Kent. Formerly farm labourer.

Home, 19th October 1914 to 29th August 1915; BEF, 30th August 1915 to 19th January 1917.

19th October 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 4th November 1914, posted 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 30th August 1915, posted BEF; 26th September 1915, 2nd Field Ambulance, wounded, bullet wound, right heel; 6th October 1915, Etaples, 24th Infantry Base Depot; 15th February 1916, Abbeville, 2 General Hospital, catarrh; 22nd February 1916, Abbeville, 2nd Stationary Hospital, discharged; 3rd January 1917, posted 10th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

22nd January 1917, Infantry Record Office to Battalion Commanding Officer - "No further issue of Separation Allowance will be made to Mrs Smith the wife of G.4143 N Smith serving under your command, on account of her cohabiting with another man. In future allowance at the motherless rate will be issued for the two children to Mrs L Sandford, St Marys Farm, Headcorn, Kent. Will you be good enough to communicate the above to the soldier who unless he is under compulsory stoppages should no longer be required to make an allotment to his wife."

1917 June, Hollingbourne Registration District, Elizabeth Smith married George Skinner;

24th November 1917, (with effect from 21st May 1917), pension of 9/2 a week awarded to the children.

21st July 1919, Statement of Relatives, completed by Mrs Little Florence Sandford (sister) and Guardian of children - Widow, Elizabeth Skinner, remarried, Upper Street, Leeds, Maidstone, Kent; Children - Edith Smith, born, 23rd July 1903,  c/o Mrs Thomas, 24 Bromley Road, Beckenham, Kent; George Smith, 18th July 1906, Upper Street, Leeds, Maidstone, Kent; Father, deceased; Mother, Jane Smith, Ledgers Row, Grafty Green, Kent; Brothers - George Smith, age 45, c/o Mrs Ifield? Liverton Street, Sandway; Charles Smith, age 43, Ledgers Row, Grafty Green, Kent; Sisters - Victoria Smith, age 41, Stone Stile Cottages, Headcorn, Kent; Rose Frances Harris, age 35, Malt House Cottage, Kingsdown, Kent; Little Florence Sandford, age 33, Tong Villas, Headcorn, Kent, late of St Marys Farm, Headcorn, Kent; Mabel C P Town, age 25, Brook Cottage, Liverton Hill, Sandway, Kent

Buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery,  X D 26. Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Commemorated Leeds War Memorial.

NOTE: Soldiers Died in the Great War show Battalion as 8th; CWGC web site show it as 10th.


London Gazette 30th November 1917.

SOLDIERS' BALANCES UNDISPOSED OF.

In pursuance of "The Regimental Debts Act, 1893," notice is hereby given that there is available for distribution amongst the Next of Kin or others entitled the sum of money set opposite to the name of each of the deceased Soldiers named in the lists which are published with this notice in the London Gazette and the "Army List," and are also to be seen at the Regimental Depots throughout the United Kingdom.

Applications from persons supposing themselves entitled as Next of Kin should be addressed by letter to "The Secretary, War Office, Imperial Institute, South Kensington, London, S. W. 7," and marked outside "Effects."

R. H. BRADE. War Office, November 30th, 1917.

List GCGCGIX of the names of deceased Soldiers whose Personal Estate is held for distribution amongst the Next of Kin or others entitled. Effects 1916-1917.

Smith N, Private, Royal West Kent Regiment,  £2    16s    7d.


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