D/5046963 Lance-Corporal Albert Edward Smith of the 8th (Home Defence) Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, died on the 12th March 1941. The UK Army Roll of Honour states that he originally enlisted with the North Staffordshire Regiment and transferred at some point to the Cheshire Regiment.
Albert Smith was born in Rotherham and enlisted at Nottingham. He is buried in Birkenhead's Landican Cemetery.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry (UK Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945)
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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