Charles Frederick Smith

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

663308

Unit at enlistment:

164th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Brant

Birth city:

Brantford, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

5 Dundas Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

5 Dundas Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Drug clerk

Religious denominations:

Other

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Wounded

BX August 21, 1918

Charles Frederick Smith, 5 Dundas Street, has been admitted to the Australian General hospital at Rouen Aug. 12 with shell burned hands. Official word was received yesterday from Ottawa. Private Smith enlisted with the 164th Battalion Dufferin and Halton County, and served as a sergeant in the medical service under Capt. Digby of this city in the same regiment. He went overseas April 1917, and went to the 54th Battalion in France last Good Friday. In order to go to France he reduced in rank from sergeant to private.

BX November 20, 1918

Mr. Arthur Smith, 5 Dundas Street, received word from Ottawa that his son, Private Fred Smith had been admitted to the Fourth General Hospital, Dannes-Camiers, France on November 6, with concussion. He enlisted with the 164th of Dufferin and Halton Counties. He was then a student at the B.C.I. He reached France on Good Friday of this year, having reversed from a sergeant to get to France, and this is his second wounding. He had had three years of service.