PARAS Smith, Marshall Barrie

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Smith ​

• FORENAME

Marshall Barrie ​

• UNIT

13 Bn ​

• RANK

Private ​

• NUMBER

14363561 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

24th March 1945 ​

• AGE

31 ​

• GRAVESITE

Reichswald Forest War Cemetery,Germany 42.A.9 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born Glasgow​

son of Edgar T.F. and Jane Barrie Smith​

husband of Jean C. Smith,Dalbeattie,Kirkcudbrightshire​

KIA Hamminkeln,Germany​

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information from Alasdair Malcolm,Prestwick,Ayrshire (grandson)​

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My grandfather lived in Dalbeattie and was married to my grandmother Jean C Smith. He had six sons and one daughter, my mother. One son, who had a heart defect, died in December 1944, when my grandfather was serving, whilst the youngest son was born in November 1945, 7 months after my grandfather was killed in action.​

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Service record :-​

03.12.1942 - Deemed to have been enlisted into the General Service Corps Embodied Territorial Army​

08.03.1944 - Granted Deferrment and Joined for service​

27.04.1944 - Transferred to The Black watch​

20.07.1944 - Transferred to The Army Air Corps​

20.10.1944 - Posted to 13th Btn Parachute Regiment​

24.03.1945 - Killed In Action​

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Service with the colours - 08.03.1944 to 24.03.1945​

Overseas Service :- NW Europe 24.12.1944 to 23.02.1945 & 26.02.1945 - 24.03.1945​

Medals :- 1939/45 star, France & Germany star, War medal 1939/45​