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Harry Clapham Smith

Harry Clapham Smith

Date of Birth

1919

College

Borough Road College

Job(s)

School Teacher

Service number

262414

WW2 rank

Lieutenant

542 Bty, 1Mountain Regt., Royal Artillery

Theatre of war

Europe

Date of death

25 April, 1945

Location of death

Holland

Buried/memorial

Hanover War Cemetery

Biography

Lieutenant Harry Clapham Smith attended Borough Road College from 1937 to 1939. He was a school Teacher in Monmouthshire before joining the Royal Artillery. After being injured in Holland Lieutenant Smith crossed the Rhine with his Regiment. Unfortunately, Lieutenant Smith died in Holland just five months before the end of the war. He is buried at Hanover War Cemetery.

Sources

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

letter from parents, BRC Archives

Borough Road College 1937 Registry