They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: 
 Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. 
 At the going down of the sun and in the morning: 
 We will remember them. 

This page is dedicated to the remembrance of our fallen heroes. In many Campaigns and at many different places family members have answered the call to arms and all too often made the supreme sacrifice for their country.

Please note that the Death Place listed may be the nearest War Cemetery rather than the actual location, this is especially true of places such as Ballieul and Bethune which were Casualty clearing Stations at a Railhead.

 CWGC Links below are copyright of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

  Name Died
(Age)		 Death
Place		 Rank Unit DOB Place Of Birth CWGC
Link		  
 Albert James
 Smee		 29 March 1915
(21)		 Elham
Kent		 Private 9th Battalion
 Essex Regiment		 1894 Maldon
Essex		 CWGC
Link
 William Henry
 Smee		 2 May 1915
(42 but claimed 38)		 Gallipoli
Turkey		 Corporal 1st Battalion
Australian Infantry		 1873 West Ham
London		 CWGC
Link
 John Daniel
 Smee		 22 Oct 1915
(28)		 Ypres
Belgium		 Lance
Corporal		 16th Battalion
Queen's Westminster Rifles		 26 Oct
1887		 Kilburn
London		 CWGC
Link
 Alfred Thomas
 Smees		 31 May 1916
(22)		 Battle of
Jutland		 Gunner Royal Marines
HMS Indefatigable		 27 Dec
1894		 Portsea
Hampshire		 CWGC
Link
 Cyril Frederick
 Smee		 16 Aug 1916
(19)		 Somme
France		 Private 2nd Battalion
Suffolk Regiment		 1897 Chesterton
Cambridgeshire		 CWGC
Link
 John William
 Smee		 20 Aug 1916
(19)		 Chelsea
London		 Private 10th Battalion
Essex Regiment		 1897 Leyton
London		 CWGC
Link
 Alfred William
 Smee		 26 Aug 1916
(20)		 Dranoutre
Belgium		 Rifleman 1/5th Battalion
London Rifle Brigade		 1896 Islington
London		 CWGC
Link
 Arthur Ernest
 Smee		 3 Sep 1916
(27)		 Somme
France 		Private 17th Battalion
Sherwood Foresters		 1889 Cambridge
Cambridgeshire		 CWGC
Link
 Albert Edward
 Smee		 29 Oct 1916
(27)		 Greece Lance
Corporal		  7th Battalion
Royal  Berkshire Regiment		 1889 Putney
London		 CWGC
Link
 Charles Harold
 Smee		 11 March 1917
(22)		 Basra
Iraq		 Lance
Corporal		 1st/10th Battalion
Middlesex Regiment		 1895 Windsor
Berks		 CWGC
Link
 Clarence William G
 Smee		 12 April 1917
(21)		 Arras
France		 Private 1st Battalion
Hampshire Regiment		 1896 Wareham
Dorset		 CWGC
Link
 Ernest Thomas
 Smee		 22 April 1917
(38)		 Loos
France		 Private 11th Battalion
Essex Regiment		 1879 Colchester
Essex		 CWGC
Link
 William Josiah
 Smee		 23 April 1917
(38)		 Vimy Ridge
France		 Private 1st Battalion
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry		 1879 Stoke Newington
London		 CWGC
Link
 Frank
 Smee		 30 April 1917
(34)		 Bethune
France		 Private 9th Battalion
Norfolk Regiment		 1882 Shalford
Essex		 CWGC
Link
 William Edwin
 Smee		 2 May 1917
(33)		 Arras
France		 Acting
Bombardier		 Royal Field Artillery 1884 West Ham

CWGC
Link
 Frederick Fuller
 Smee		 9 June 1917
(21)		 France Private 2nd Battalion
Canterbury Regiment		 10 Feb
1896		 Norwood
Lambeth		 CWGC
Link
 William Reginald
 Smee		 14 June 1917
(26)		 Arras
France		 Corporal 2nd Battalion
Suffolk Regiment		 1890 Stutton
Suffolk		 CWGC
Link
 Herbert Edgar
 Smee		 20 Sep 1917
(20)		 Ypres
Belgium		 Rifleman 2nd/5th Battalion
London Rifle Brigade		 1897 Islington
London		 CWGC
Link
 Godfrey Holland
 Smee		 14 Oct 1917
(36)		 Ypres
Belgium		 Gunner A Battery 162nd Brigade
Royal Field Artillery		 1881 Stoke Newington
London		 CWGC
Link
 Alfred George
 Smee MM		 30 Nov 1917
(25)		 Cambrai
France		 Lance
Corporal		 9th Battalion
Essex Regiment		 1892 Purleigh
Essex		 CWGC
Link
 Thomas
 Smee		 1 Oct 1918
(?)		 France Private Prince of Wales
North Staffordshire Regiment		 ? ?
Tunstall Staffs		 Not on CWGC?
 Alfred Charles
 Smee		 3 Oct 1918
(22)		 Picardy
France		 Private 7th Battalion
London Regiment		 1894 Islington
London		 CWGC
Link
 Horace Percy
 Smee		 22 Oct 1918
(19)		 Somme
France		 Gunner B Battery 94th Brigade
Royal Field Artillery		 17 Mar
1899		 Toppesfield
Essex		 CWGC
Link
 Arthur Joseph
 Smee		 28 Oct 1918
(23)		 Steyning
Sussex		 Lieutenant RAF / 3rd Battalion
Wiltshire Regiment		 4 Feb 1895 Croydon
Surrey		 CWGC
Link
 Percival George F
 Smee		 29 Oct 1918
(38)		 Gaza
Israel		 Gunner 387th Siege Battery
Royal Artillery		 1880 Cambridge
Cambridgeshire		 CWGC
Link
 William
 Smee		 3 Dec 1918
(18)		 HMS
Pembroke		 Boy 1st Class HMS Pembroke 1900 West Ham
London		 CWGC
Link
 George David
 Smee		 15 Oct 1940
(17)		 Atlantic Convoy
OB-228		 Ordinary Seaman SS Thistlegarth
Merchant Navy		 1923 Grimsby
Yorkshire		 CWGC
Link
 Frederick
 Smee		 13 March 1941
(29)		 St. Anne's School,
Liverpool		 Air Raid
Warden		 Civilian 1911 Liverpool
Lancashire		 CWGC
Link
 George William
 Smee		 6 Nov 1941
(40)		 Hong Kong
(Disease?)		 Warrant Officer
Class 1		 12th Coast Regiment
Royal Artillery		 1902 Southsea
Hampshire		 CWGC
Link
 Herbert Pennett
 Smee		 13 Feb 1942
(32)		 Off
Singapore		 Ordinary Signalman River Gunboat HMS Scorpion
Royal Navy		 1910 Epping
Essex		 CWGC
Link
 James Kenneth
 Smee		 5 June 1942
(22)		 Tangmere
Middlesex		 Sergeant
Pilot		 RAFVR
219 Squadron		 22 Sep 1920 Mayfield
Australia		 CWGC
Link
 William John
 Smee		 4 June 1943
(34)		 Burma-Siam
Railway		 Private Cambridgeshire Regiment 29 Dec
1908		 West Ham
London		 CWGC
Link
 Edwin John
 Smee		 18 June 1943
(18)		 Fareham
Hampshire		 Ordinary Seaman HMS Collingwood
Royal Navy		 1924 Epsom
Surrey		 CWGC
Link
 Paul Meredith
 Smee		 25 May 1944
(27)		 Cassino
Italy		 Trooper 9th Armoured Regiment
British Columbia Dragoons 		1917 Alberta
Canada		 CWGC
Link
 Herbert
 Smee		 22 June 1944
(56)		 London Road
Mitcham		 Air Raid
Warden		 Civilian 1886 Finchley
London		 CWGC
Link
 Lloyd C
 Smee		 18 July 1944
(22)		 Caen
France		 Private Royal Regiment of Canada, R.C.I.C. 15 Nov
1921		 Ontario
Canada		 CWGC
Link
 Norman Frederick Walter
 Smee		 22 Feb 1945
(20)		 Haugesund
Norway		 Leading Airman 821 Sqdn. Fleet Air Arm
H.M.S. Puncher		 6 Jul
1924		 Islington
London		 CWGC
Link
 Alan
 Smee		 9 March 1945
(20)		 Reichswald Forest
Germany		 Flight Sergeant 90 Squadron
RAFVR		 1924 Maldon
Essex		 CWGC
Link
 James Earl
 Smee		 17 April 1945   Seaman
2nd Class		 US Navy   St Louis
Missouri		  
 

Although not listed here, several other  family members suffered severe injuries in the service of their Country which in some cases blighted their lives.

More Information can be found at these Sites

Pete Smee's Extended Family Remembrance Page


Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)


British War Memorial Project