WW1 British War & Victory Medals named 42837 PTE C J SMITH MANCH R & Memorial Plaque named CYRIL JOSEPH SMITH.
Cyril Joseph Smith born in 1898 in Cagthorpe, Lincs, son of Daniel and Annie Smith. Cyril went to school in Royston and worked for Messrs Pickles, Clothiers in Wakefield. He enlisted into the 7th Manchester Regt in Barnsley on 22nd Dec 1916 and was posted to France with the 2/7th Battalion from 7th June 1917. He was killed in action on 8th Oct 1917 during the fighting over Passchendaele Ridge.
