SMITH, Frederick

7th Field Ambulance Cemetery, Gallipoli TurkeyCredit: Bernie Wood

Rifleman
1st/8th Battalion Isle of Wight Rifles
Hampshire Regiment

Frederick was born 1896 in Newport to Harry John & Mary Jane (nee CASS) SMITH who were living at 4 Upper Field Place in Newport around the time of Frederick’s death. The family had also previously lived at 2 Liverton Row, Trafalgar Road in Newport.

Frederick, aged 19, was Killed in Action by shellfire on the 30th of September 1915. Buried in the 7th Field Ambulance Cemetery, at Gallipoli in Turkey, he rests beneath a Commission Pedestal Marker alongside 640 of his First World War comrades, of whom 276 remain unidentified.

Frederick is also remembered on the Newport Borough & IW Rifles War Memorials. His father Harry also fell in WWI.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.