'THE GREAT WAR', 'THE WAR TO END WAR', 'WORLD WAR 1'
'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
- Only the monstrous anger of the guns.' from 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'
by Wilfred Owen
1914 - 1918
St. Paul's Methodist Church, Shaw
Memorial Autograph Book
Private Thomas Smith, 177879
Enlisted in R.A.M.C. November 1915
Machine Gun Corps, Infantry (23rd Bn. ref CWGC website)
Died 24th May 1919 (pneumonia)
Age 25
Son of William and Sarah Ellen Smith, of 6, Tudor St., Shaw, Lancs.