Smith, Henry Thomas: Service no. 53852

Digitized Service Record

Source: Comment by Facebook Group member about her relative, Private John Smith, reg. no. 53850 dying in action April 2, 1916. Henry Thomas Smith was his brother.

Summary of Service for Private John Henry Smith, reg. no. 53852

Date	Event	Remarks
September 11, 1880	Born	Born at Rotherhithe, Kent, England.
October 22, 1914	Enlists	Enlists at Stratford, Ontario. He is 30-years and 6 months old. Married to Elizabeth Sara Smith with children aged 15, 13, 11, 9, 7, 5, 3, and 1 year old. His trade is a blacksmith and his 5’ 6.5” tall. He belongs to the militia, most probably the 28th Regiment and the medical officer records his teeth as Upper Jaw – Good; Lower Jaw – Fairly Good; 2 Missing. His eyes are “Fair”. Assigned “D” Company.
November 11, 1914	Anti-Typhoid Inoculations
November 22, 1914	Anti-Typhoid Inoculations
December 15, 1915	Vaccinated
December 1914	Assigns Pay	Assigns $20.00 per month to his wife, Elizabeth Sara Smith, residing at 200 Nelson Street, Stratford, Ontario and then later, 28 Silwood Street, Rotherhithe, London, England.
April 18, 1915	Unit Sails	Unit sails from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
April 29, 1915	Arrives England	Arrives England aboard the S.S. Grampian.
September 14, 1915	Embarks France	Embarks to the Continent for active service.
October 15, 1915	Injures knee and foot	Pension document records that he was hurt at Dickenbusch, Belgium. He desires to be discharged in England.
November 12, 1915	Admitted 5th C.F.A.	Admitted 5th Canadian Field Ambulance for “strain of arch, left foot”.
November 14, 1915	Transferred to D.R.S.
November 14, 1915	Transferred to 6th C.F.A.
November 16, 1915	Transferred to No. 2 C.C.S.	Transferred to No. 2. Casualty Clearing Station.
November 17, 1915	Entrains for Etaples	Transferred to No. 7 [Hospital] Train.
November 18, 1915	24th General Hospital	Etaples, France attends 24th General Hospital for flat feet. His left foot is “flat”.
November 22, 1915	Discharged	Discharged from hospital.
November 25, 1915	Discharged to C.B.D.	Discharged to Canadian Base Depot, Etaples.
December 5, 1915	Classified P.B. and sent to England	Classified Permanent Base.
December 7, 1915	Taken on Strength	Transported to Folkestone, England and taken on strength with the 36th Reserve Battalion at West Sandling.
March 1, 1916	Medical Report on an Invalid	Report relates details of injury.
March 16, 1916	Transferred	Transferred and taken on strength with the Canadian Casualty Assembly Center.
April 20, 1916	Medical Board	Medical Board instructs this soldier to be paraded to Moore Barrack Hospital, Folkestone, for x-rays of his left ankle and foot.
April 30, 1916	On Command	On Command with the Canadian Convalescent Depot.
May 5, 1915	Struck Off Strength	Discharged in England. Classified “Medically Unfit”
May 13, 1915	Discharged	Discharged at the Canadian Casualty Discharge Deport, Prior Park, Bath, England.
September 20, 1958	Deceased	Recorded in service record as deceased this date.