4530 x 6342 px | 38,4 x 53,7 cm | 15,1 x 21,1 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
14 giugno 2023
Ubicazione:
field W of the Guillemont to Longueval Road, Somme.
Altre informazioni:
George Futvoye Marsden-Smedley was the second son of John Bertram and Gertrude Mary Marsden-Smedley of Matlock, Derbyshire. Born in 1897 he was educated at Harrow (1911-15) where he was in the OTC, a monitor, captain of the football and cricket elevens (but got a 'pair' in the Eton v Harrow match of 1914) and matriculated at Trinity College. Cambridge Commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in August 1915, He went to the Front in July 1916 just before his nineteenth birthday, straight into the Battle of the Somme. His surviving letters describe vividly his twenty five days on the battlefield The next afternoon he led his platoon in the attack on Guillemont Station. Having been themselves heavily shelled all day, three companies went forward under a creeping barrage crossing no-man's-land with little loss until they met stiff resistance from the strong point around the Station. "The enemy's garrison was determined and courageous and there was a fierce hand-to-hand fight..." Marsden-Smedley reportedly charged a machine gun which was holding up the Company and "After shooting one of the men he was shot by a German Officer and fell on the parapet of the German trench." Despite his new identity disc his body was never found.
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