One hundred years ago today, nearly two years into the Great War and 16 days in the Battle of the Somme, Private Alfred Ernest Smith, 9144 ‘B’ Company 11th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment., died of his wounds that he received the day before, aged 23 years.
Alfred was a Porthill Scout, and was the fifth of eighteen of our Scouts, that we know of, that were killed in the Great War. He was also the first of the three Porthill Scouts, that we know of, killed on the Somme.
You can read his full story here.
Alfred Ernest Smith b. Wolstanton 1893 – d. France 1916.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
