| Surname: | Smethurst |
| Initials: | J |
| Rank: | Private |
| Army Number: | 5779499 |
| Notes: | CMP. Enlisted in the Royal Norfolk Regiment, 20/5/41 transferred to CMP. VP. 1/8/1891 born. 14/9/41 Died. He was born and resided in Manchester. 14/9/1941, Died, Home. Inscription on gravestone: Not just today but every day we remember, Loving Wife and Family. His son John Worsley Smethurst, 851232 Gunner, 1 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery was killed on 14/9/40, age 31 years. He is buried at El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt in plot XII. C. 16. Casualty List 659, Home, Died result of accident, 14/9/41. 7/9/49 He was awarded the War Medal. Address:- Mrs E A Smethurst. 24 Houghton Street, Pendlebury, Nr. Manchester, Lancs. John Smethurst. Extract from the Manchester Evening News - Thursday 18 September, 1941. Soldier 50, Died on Leave. Fifty year old Private John Smethurst who served in the last war and joined up in this war to serve in the Military Police, collapsed and died when he came home on leave. At the Swinton inquest today his widow Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Smethurst of Houghton Street, Pendlebury, said her husband met with an ankle injury in camp. When he came home he could hardly walk. He collapsed while she was out of the house. he daughter Ivy,, found her father lying with his arm in the fire. He was dead. Medical evidence was that death was due to a heart disease of long standing. Natural causes was the verdict. |
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| Date of Death: | Sept. 14, 1941 |
| Company: | UNKNOWN |
| CWGC Link: | 2699547 |
| Cemetery: | PENDELBURY (ST JOHN) CHURCHYARD, UNITED KINGDOM 🇬🇧 |
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