14203812 Rifleman Hubert Corville Smith,
2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles,
Born on 28 June 1923 at 2, Steer Street, Burnley, Lancashire.
He was the only child of Tom and Eva Isabella Smith (nee Simpson).
Rifleman Hubert Corville Smith was killed in action on 7 June 1944 at Normandy.
He is buried in Cambes-en-Plaine War Cemetery, Normandy, France
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Left, Cambes-en-Plaine Military Cemetery. |
Right,
Monument in memory of soldiers of the 2nd Battalion The Royal
Ulster Rifles who liberated Cambes-en-Plaine on 9 June 1944, and
gave their life for freedom in Normandy, from 6 June to 16 September
1944.
Photo from the Burnley Express
of 29 June 1944.
