Second World War - Lynsted Memorial Project

Donald Leonard Seagar SMITH (of Doddington)

b. 1915
d. 28th September 1943. Aged 28

Trooper, Service Number 7911612
Royal Armoured Corps
Doddington Churchyard
Died as a result of an accident

Doddington Church ROll of Honour


Portrait of Donald Leonard Seagar Smith of DoddingtonSon of Leonard Alfred, an auctioneer's clerk, and Hilda Smith of Doddington. At the time of the 1939 Register Donald and his now widowed mother, lived at Gloucester House, Doddington and he was working as a brewer's clerk.

In 1941 Donald married Marjorie J Purcell, a paper sorter, from Sittingbourne.

At the time of Donald's accidental death he was with 54 Training Regiment at its camp in Barnard Castle in what was then Westmorland.

Donald is buried in Doddington churchyard.

Marjorie remarried in 1944.

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