209748 Pte. Rowland Smallwood British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers from:Cookham Rise My Gt. Uncle, Rowland Smallwood, joined the Royal Fusiliers in 1896. He saw action in the Boer War during the Relief of Ladysmith. Further tours of duty took him to Burma, the East Indies and India.
At the start of WW1, Rowland was recalled from India and posted with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force to Gallipoli. He returned to England in September 1915, prior to the remnants of his Battalion in January 1915. His medical history is missing from his service record, so it is not known if he was wounded. Rowland was then posted with the British Expeditionary Force to France in February 1916, where he was wounded. He was then based in England from March 1916. Rowland was transferred to the E.C.D, then the 5th Battalion, and finally to the 11th Battalion of the Bedford Regiment. In February 1919 Rowland was discharged, no longer physically fit for war service.
In 1956 Rowland entered the Royal Hospital, Chelsea as an in-pensioner, where he died in 1965, aged 86 and was buried in the Royal Hospital, Chelsea plot at the Brookwood Cemetery, Woking.
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