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Sidney Roy Smyth

Rank: 
Private
Regimental number: 
113561
Unit at enlistment: 
5th Canadian Mounted Rifles
Force: 
C.E.F.
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Volunteered
Survived the war: 
No
Date of death: 
June 2nd, 1916
Cemetery: 
Menin Gate Memorial - Ypres, Belgium - Panel 30 and 32.
Commemorated at: 
Mount Pleasant Memorial Plaque
Birth country: 
Canada
Birth county: 
Peterborough
Birth city: 
Peterborough, Ontario
Address at enlistment: 
Peterborough, Ontario
Next of kin address: 
Mohawk P.O., Brantford, Ontario
Trade or calling: 
Accountant
Employer: 
Waterous Engine Co.
Religious denominations: 
Methodist
Marital status: 
Single
Age at enlistment: 
21
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Letters and documents

Cause and Place of Death: Previously reported Missing believed Killed now for Official purposes presumed to have Died.

BX June 29, 1916

“Regret to inform you 113561, Pte. Sidney Roy Smyth of Mounted Rifles has been officially reported missing June 2” was the telegram received by Private Smyth’s father, J.C. Smyth, Mount Pleasant, from officer in charge of record office at noon today.

It was January 1915 that Smyth enlisted in Peterborough with the 8th Canadian Mounted Rifles. He has been in the trenches since March. The last word received from him was on May 29, when his father had a card stating that all was well with him. 

Private Smyth formerly went to the local Collegiate Institute and worked at the Waterous Engine Works. From here, he went to Peterborough where he enlisted. He has two brothers and two sisters, Jack of the Bank of Nova Scotia here, and Lawrence at home, Leila at Peterborough and Margaret attending school here.

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