Harold Smith
He was an errand boy in 1911.
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Harold Smith was born in1897 at Nottingham, he was the son of the late William Smith a bobbin and carriage maker and Ada Smith née Elnor of Thorneywood Rise, Nottingham.
His father William was born in 1867 at Rotherham, he died before the 1911 census, his mother Ada Elnor was born in 1868 at Nottingham, they were married in 1894 at Nottingham, they had 7 children sadly 1 died in infancy or early childhood.
He was the brother of Emma, William, Ernest, Annie and Albert Smith.
In the 1911 census his widowed mother Ada 43 yrs a widow and lace worker is living at 53 Thorneywood Rise Thorneywood Nottingham she is living with her children, Emma 16 yrs a lace hand, Harold 14 yrs an errand boy, William 12 yrs, Ernest 9 yrs, Annie 7 yrs and Albert 5 yrs of age.
Private Harold Wilson enlisted at Nottingham he served with the 16th battalion Sherwood Foresters Regiment, he was killed in action on 10th November 1917 , he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial
Nottingham Evening Post obituary (abridged), 30 November 1917: 'Smith. Killed in action November 10th 1917, Private Harold Smith, Sherwood Foresters, of 53 Thorneywood Rise. Mother, sisters, brothers, Bill (with the Colours).'
additional research and information Peter Gillings
Photo of Harold Smith
Tyne Cot Memorial courtesy of the cwgc