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Name: SMITH, Bernard Ridley Winthrop (Capt.)
Birth Date: 19 Dec 1882 Duffield, Derbyshire
Death Date: 15 Nov 1914 Boulogne, killed in action
First Date: 1912
Last Date: 1914
Profession: ADC to Governor Sir Henry Belfield
Area: Nairobi
Book Reference: Meikle, Gazette, Eton, Leader14
War Service: Scots Guards, British Expeditionary Force
School: Trinity Coll. Cambridge (rowing blue in 62nd Ox-Camb race)
General Information:
Gazette - 24/11/15 - Probate & Admin. - Capt. B. Winthrop Smith, killed in action in France c. 20/10/14
Eton (1899) - Bernard Ridley Winthrop Smith - son of F.N. Smith; Sept 1895; July 1898; Trinity College Cambridge
Web Lieutenant Bernard Ridley Winthrop-Smith. Unit: 1st Battalion, Scots Guards. Death: 15 November 1914 Died at Base Hospital, Boulogne of wounds received in action near Ypres. Western Front. Son of Francis N. Smith, of Wingfield Park, Ambergate, Derbys. CWGC confirms date of death 15 November 1914. Buried at South Wingfield (Park) Burial Ground