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Family Search: When Captain Charles Denton Smith was born on 2 October 1883, in Brantford, Brant, Ontario, Canada, his father, Alexander George Smith, was 34 and his mother, Mary Hill, was 35. He married Mary Stella Hill on 3 November 1912. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Oshweken, Brant, Ontario, Canada in 1915 and Hagersville, Haldimand, Ontario, Canada in 1922. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 31, his occupation is listed as carpenter. He died on 5 June 1960, in Ohsweken, Six Nations (Part) 40, Six Nations, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 76
Indigenous Soldier
Military Cross Details
London Gazette: 31266
For conspicuous gallantry and determination at Frameries on 9th November, 1918. He led his platoon forward with such rapidity that he surprised a party of sappers, preparing to move up a road mine. Rushing forward, he shot the man who was in the act of igniting the fuse. The same evening he personally captured a machine gun, disposing of the crew.
London Gazette. Issue 31680. Page 15393. December 10, 1919.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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