William Alexander Ivory SMITH letter of death from Forces Chaplain, page 1: Thrale & Thrall family history

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A hand-written letter from a Forces Chaplain dated 12 September 1915 describing William's army in-service death and burial at sea.

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Newspaper clipping

CANTERBURY MOUNTED RIFLES
Died Hospital Ship Franconia, 26th Aug.
Smith, William Alexander, 7/124, Tpr.¹
Louisa Smith, c/o J. France, P.O. Picton².

Chaplain letter

Altringham
England
Sep 12^th 1915

Dear Madam,

It is with very great regret indeed that I write to tell you of the death of Mr. W. A. Smith. Trooper 7/124 Otago Mounted Rifles³, and I do send you my very sincere sympathy. It seems so hard to lose him when he is so far from home. He came away from the Gallipoli

Footnotes

Trooper. ↩︎
Post Office, Picton, New Zealand. ↩︎
Almost certainly an error, he was most likely a soldier in the Canterbury Mounted Rifles. ↩︎

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