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Capt. Lawder Benjamin Sandys Smith MC MiD.

British Army 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment

Lawder Smith served with the Army Service Corps as a Lieutenant and arrived in France on the 12th of August 1914. He transferred to 1st Royal Irish Fusiliers in June 1916 and fought on Somme, where he won the MC at Lesboeufs on the 12th of October 1916, where he was wounded. He then transferred to 6th Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment in February 1917 then 119th Regiment, Indian Army in Feb 1918 and served until 1923 in Mesopotamia and Waziristan. Subsequently he was a civil engineer in India, Rhodesia and Iraq.

In centre, 1920 India



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