Corporal 25B/1139 Jonathan Smart 2/24th

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Derby Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 06 November 1929

Promoted Lance Sergeant 23/1/1879 G Company vice Coffey
1877-78-79 clasp
Died Borrowash Derbyshire 1944

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Derby Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 22 April 1930

Subject: Re: Corporal 25B/1139 Jonathan Smart 2/24th Sun Jul 24, 2022 1:52 pm

For info:
SMART Jonathan – Corporal – 25B/1139 – 2nd/24th F Company
Attended 1938 Dinner and re-union also the 1939 Dinner and re-union, when he broadcast on the radio (Welsh Regional programme) with Lt. Col. F. Bourne.
Promoted to Corporal 1/11/1878 (Not "a few days previously". Like I always say, old
men "remember with advantages.")

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Derby Daily Telegraph - Monday 07 November 1932

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Derby Daily Telegraph - Monday 17 January 1938

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A longer account of his exploits

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Derby Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 26 January 1938

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Derby Daily Telegraph - Monday 14 November 1938

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His little obit.
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Derby Daily Telegraph - Saturday 18 December 1943

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Hi All
No Military, Johnathan Smart 2/24 born 26 june 1861 Saffron Walden Essex, married Eliza Colclough 3 july 1886, St James Taxal derbyshire, 1891 census Derby Rd Shardlow, Signalman Midland Railway which does not change until he retires in 1928, M.to Eliza 2 children, 1901 census Elm St Barrowash, 4 Children, 1911, 1921, 1939 175 Victoria Avenue, Barrowash, Ockbrook, Derbyshire. He dies Dec 1943 at his home, and registered in Shardlow Derbyshire District.
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Haverhill Echo - Saturday 14 May 1898

» Corporal Albert Smart Natal Mounted Police
» 335 Corporal R. Collett, 1-24th Foot
» Corporal 829 Patrick Mangan 1/24th Regiment