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Subject: Re: Victor Dey SMEDMORE, Port Royal, JAMAICA , killed 1918, WWI
Date: 2 May 1997 17:52:07 -0700
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In article <5k7g8q$>, says...
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>My uncle, Victor Dey SMEDMORE, was born in Port Royal,Jamaica, in
>1886. The family moved to Kingston around 1899. Victor lived at home
>with his family at 49 Beeston Street. He was unmarried and may have
>worked at Henderson & Co. August 18, 1915 he enlisted in London,
>England, in the 1st Life Guards, which became the Household Battalion.
>He was killed in action January 29, 1918, near Arras. His name is on
>the Arras Monument.
>

>England (and when) to join the Life Guards, instead of joining the
>West Indian Regiment in Jamaica. Was there any sort of recruitment
>drive done by British regiments in Jamaica at the beginning of World
>War I? Why would a clerk from Kingston decide to go to England to
>enlist in a Guards Regiment?

Dorothy,
He may have gone to England to work, even before the war started in 1914.
Once there, he probably got caught up in the patriotic fervour of the
time, and enlisted. Is it possible to find out when he stopped working
for Henderson & Co.? This may give a hint as to when he went to England.
Christine.
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>There's no one left alive to answer this question. Anyone have any
>ideas?
>
>Dorothy
>_________
>Dorothy Kew
>Brampton, ON
>CANADA
>

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