Lieutenant Geoffrey Bache Smith

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Lieutenant Geoffrey Bache Smith Veteran

Birth
West Bromwich, Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England
Death
3 Dec 1916 (aged 22)
France
Burial
Saulty, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Add to Map
Plot
III. G. 2.
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Lieutenant, 19th Lancashire Fusiliers. Younger son of Thomas and Ruth Annie Smith, of Grove Crescent, West Bromwich.He attended King Edward's School in Birmingham, where he soon became one of J.R.R. Tolkien's closest friends and a member of the TCBS, his informal club. Exhibitioner at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he enlisted in the Army in December 1914. A promising poet, a selection of his poems was edited by J.R.R. Tolkien and C. Wiseman and published posthumously in 1918 under the title "A Spring Harvest".
Lieutenant, 19th Lancashire Fusiliers. Younger son of Thomas and Ruth Annie Smith, of Grove Crescent, West Bromwich.He attended King Edward's School in Birmingham, where he soon became one of J.R.R. Tolkien's closest friends and a member of the TCBS, his informal club. Exhibitioner at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he enlisted in the Army in December 1914. A promising poet, a selection of his poems was edited by J.R.R. Tolkien and C. Wiseman and published posthumously in 1918 under the title "A Spring Harvest".

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