Ref ID: 5466
Name
Alexander Parke Smith.
Description
Belfast Telegraph Newspaper Photograph of Private Alexander Parke Smith.
Life Story
Name: Alexander Parke Smith.
Service Number: 8049.
Rank: Private.
Battalion: 2nd Battalion.
Regiment: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
Born: 9th June 1886, Belfast.
Died: 21st October 1914.
Address: 9 Emerson Street, Belfast
.
Alexander Parke Smith, son of Alexander and Sarah Anne Smyth, lived with his wife and children at 9 Emerson Street, Shankill Road, Belfast
.
Alexander had married Margaret Jane Smith, Nee Boyd, on the 6th of July 1906 within Saint Annes Church, Belfast. His address at this time is given as Victoria Barracks, Belfast. They went on to have two children, James Parke born on the 9th of July 1907 and Alexander Parke born 1st of March 1913
.
The 1911 English Census has Alexander posted with the 1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and based in China
.
Alexander signed the Ulster Covenant on the 28th of September 1912, Ulster Day, within Belfast City Hall
.
Alexander joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
He was posted as part of the British Expeditionary Force to France on the 28th August 1914.
Alexander was a Private in C Company 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was Killed In Action in France on the 21st of October 1914 aged 28 years.
.
A local newspaper states.
Mrs Smith, 9 Emerson Street, Belfast, has received official notification that her husband, Private A.P Smith, 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who was previously reported missing, died on October 21. Deceased was a reservist employed as a motorman on the Belfast City Tramways and a member of the Hanover L.O.L. He leaves a wife and two little children
.
Alexander's Soldiers Effects were left to his wife.
His Will, signed and dated 7th August 1914, left all his Property to his wife Margaret.
A Will that he had signed and dated 23rd March 1909, before the war, also shows that he had left his wife everything should anything happen to him back then.
A Dependant Pension Application Form shows both his wife and children as claimants.
His widow Margaret remarried, Robert Nicholl on the 2nd of October 1920 within St John's Church Belfast
.
Alexander received the British War Medal, Victory Medal and 1914 Star
.
He is Remembered at Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.
To Remember Is To Honour
.
Theme
Shankill Roll of Honour
Date
1915
Classification
Newspaper, , Photograph - Belfast Telegraph
