| Surname: | Smith |
| Initials: | J W |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | P/16405 |
| Notes: | MFP. Awarded the 1915 Star, Victory and War Medals. First served abroad (3a) Egypt, 10/11/1914. Shown as 10/9/1914 to 4/9/1915 and 1/5/1916 to 5/3/1917 and (1) France, 6/3/1917 to 28/5/1918 on medal roll page B1204. 3/9/1914 he enlisted as a Pte. 1/10 Manchester Regiment. No. 2180 and No. 375512, Address: 3 Welkin Square, Clitheroe and 3 Bolderod Place, Off Edge Lane, Oldham. Transferred to MFP, date not known. 19/2/19 Disembodied. 22/1/1919 awarded £2 on the Heaton Park No. 1 Demobilization Acquittance Roll. 20/2/1919 he was awarded a pension of 11/- per week for 52 weeks, disability 40%, GSW left hip and right thigh, address: Bolderod Place, off Edge Lane, Oldham. Found in his Army Record, Ministry of Pensions Form FSA 6, dated 12/4/1918: no further issued of separation allowance will be made to Mrs Smith the wife of No 375512 Pte. J W Smith, Manchester Regiment on acconut of her misconduct and desertion of her children. The allowance at the motherless rare is being issued for the three children to the Grandmother, Mrs Rose Ann Smith, 3 Wikins Square, ? Info from Pension Index Card: Smith, James William, MFP, 16405, L/Cpl, 19/2/1919 to discharge, born 1893, 3 Bolderod Lane, off Edge Lane Road, Oldham, Lancashire, disability: GSW hip & right thigh, last entry 17/2/1920, 5%, Art 1 (3), Final, 5/6, 25/7/1920 to 22/2/1921. James William Smith. |