WW1 Casualty: Corporal 24746 Nathan Robinson Smith - Corporal 24746 Nathan Robinson Smith
| Unit/Regiment |
54th Bde HQ, Royal Field Artillery |
| Date of Death |
11/12/1918 |
Age at Death |
23 |
Burial/Memorial
& Reference |
Kirechkoi-Hortakoi Military cemetery
565 |
| CWGC Family Details (if shown) |
Son of Mary Robinson (now Stephenson), of 171, Ellen St., Preston, Lancs, and the late Nathan Robinson. Native of Prescot |
| Census Details |
1901 Census -
Living at 56, St Thomas Road, Preston, were James Smith (32, an Insurance Agent), his wife Mary (28), Nathan Robinson (5), Frank Robinson (3), both Mary's sons from her first marriage, and 1 year old James J Smith, son of James and Mary. |
| Birth/Marriage/Death Registrations |
Birth registered Q4/1895, Prescot, Vol 8b, Page 683 |
| Research Ref. No. |
P322 |
Service DetailsNathan Robinson (senior) married Mary Leather in Prescot in early 1895, their son Nathan being born later that year. He was baptised at St Mary's Church on 28th October 1895.
At that time, the Robinson family lived in Station Road, Prescot. Nathan (senior) died in early 1898 aged 32 and in mid-1899, his widow Mary married James Smith in Prescot, the family then moving to Preston.
Nathan went overseas with his unit in 1915, arriving in Egypt on 20th April.
Although I can't be certain, I think that he would have served in Gallipoli for the remainder of 1915, then after the withdrawal from the Peninsula in January 1916, he would have returned to Egypt before being transferred to the Salonika front.
XVI Corps Headquarters were at Kirechkoi from January 1916, soon after the opening of the Salonika campaign, until the advance to the Struma in September 1916. Kirechkoi-Hortakoi Military cemetery was begun in March 1916, but it remained a very small one until September 1917, when the 60th, 65th and 66th General Hospitals came to the neighbourhood.
In June, July and September 1918, other hospitals were brought to the high and healthy country beside the Salonika-Hortakoi road and in September 1918, the influenza epidemic began which raged for three months and filled three-quarters of the cemetery.
Nathan appears to have contracted pneumonia and died in 48th General Hospital.
The original hard copy CWGC register, reproduced below, confirms that Nathan Smith died of pneumonia.
Nathan has two entries in the Register of Soldiers Effects, both of which confirm his mother as next of kin
Nathan Smith's Medal Index Card. He was entitled to the 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal
Corporal Smith's CWGC headstone at Kirechkoi-Hortakoi Military cemetery in near Thessaloniki, Greece.
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