Other Information:Charles was educated at Lausanne, Neuwied and Chigwell School, Essex, and also at Edinburgh University, where he qualified for Medicine in 1911.
He held the appointments of House Surgeon and House Physician at the East Suffolk Hospital, Ipswich and was Second Surgeon at the British Red Cross Hospital, Tripoli in the Italo-Turkish War. He then went into practice at High Green, Cannock, Strafford. He joined the R.A.M.C. at the rank of Lieutenant on 1st November 1914 and was promoted to Captain after a years service. He was a member of the British Medical Mission to Serbia in 1915, and was awarded the Order of St. Sava 5th Class for distinguished services during the campaign there (L.G. 16th May 1916). On 3rd April 1916 he went to France. He was killed at Martinpuich, and it is believed, was originally buried in Villa Wood Cemetery, Contalmaison.
Colonel Pollock, the A.D.M.S., 15th Division at the time, wrote: He was a keen and gallant officer, who did his duty thoroughly and nobly, without thinking of his own safety or sparing himself in anyway. His death is a great loss to this division. Lieutenant Colonel R F Forbes also wrote: I can assure you his loss is keenly felt by the regiment, for since he joined us at Le Biset he has always worked hard, for any man shot came under his care, and by his attention has saved many badly wounded.
Charles was the eldest son of Charles and Ellen (daughter of John Holton of Lincoln) Smith of Milligan Hall, Taunton, co Somerset; and the husband of Ethel Bertha Smith (daughter of Henry Warwick Terry) of 5 Evelyn Court, Cheltenham. They were married at Presbury Parish Church on 30th December 1912, and had two children.
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