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Cpl. George Alfred Smith
British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers
from:7 Osborne Grove, Finsbury Park
(d.31st May 1940)
George Smith was my uncle. He was listed as killed in action between 10th of May 1940 and 4th of June 1940 on an army form B 104-82. In a hand written letter to my nan from a Captain William Thomas dated 21st of January 1941 the Captain states that Cpl George Smith was killed in action at Nieuport in, what he describes as, "This battle was the fiercest and perhaps the most vital in which the battalion engaged as we were responsible for holding the left flank of the strip of coast from which the evacuation took place". The latter also states that 2 Fusiliers were with him when he was killed. A later letter confirmed he was killed on the 31st May 1940 and is buried in a war grave at Oostdunkirk New Cemetery 4 miles north of Furnes (Veurnes).