Reginald Roy Smith

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

7838

Unit at enlistment:

7th Canadian Mounted Rifles

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Wounded:

Yes

Cemetery:

Lower New Albion Cemetery, Cattaraugus County, New York, U.S.A.

Commemorated at:

Immanuel Baptist Church, St. James Anglican Church (Paris)

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Brant

Birth city:

Paris, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

Paris, Ontario

Next of kin address:

Paris, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Plasterer

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

BX November 13, 1916

Further Casualties

Private Reginald Smith is reported wounded. He is a single man and left with a draft from the 25th Brant Dragoons in January 1915, and was attached to the C.M.R. The wounding of Private Frank Robins of this city is officially reported this morning.

April 9, 1962

Reginald Smyth

Reginald R. Smyth, 65 of R.D. 1 Dewittville, died at 6 p.m., Saturday (April 7, 1962) in his home after an illness of 14 months.

A Canadian veteran of World War 1, Mr. Smyth recently retired as maintenance man at the Chautauqua County Home, formerly at Dewittville, where he had lived for 10 years.

He was born July 25, 1897 in Paris, Ont., the son of Harry and Margaret Pottruff Smyth.

Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Marion Wilson Smyth, whom he married July 9, 1955; three daughters, Mrs. Margaret Chase of Ellicottville, Mrs. Alice LaKarcago of Ft. Worth, Tex., and Mrs. Muriel Hauschel of North Wales, Pa.; three sons, Roy E. Smyth of Los Angeles, Calif., Fred C. Smyth of San Antonio, Tex.; and Norman Smyth of Grove City, Pa.; a stepson, Milton Cogswell of Washington, D.C.; two brothers, Hugh Smyth of Windsor, Ont. And Arthur Smyth of Paris, Ont.; 13 grandchildren and several aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m., Tuesday, at the Freay Funeral Home, Mayville. Rev. Lionell Sayters, pastor of Hartfield E.U.B. Church, will officiate, assisted by Rev. Frederick A. Oswick, pastor of Pleasantville Gospel Tabernacle. Burial will be in Lower New Albion Cemetery.