Lance/Corporal Harold Smith
4251 2nd Border Regiment
Killed in Action 16th February 1915, aged 22
Lived at 12 Sepentine Street, formerly 14 Russell Street
Buried in Rue Petillon Military Cemetery, France - I.M.26
Burnley Express 6th March 1915 - 15th January 1915

Son of Charles & Sarah Jane Smith 17 Forshaw Ave St Annes
Wife Rhoda 16 Kirkgate,1 child.Special Reservist,drafted to France Nov 1914.
He was killed by a German bomb which struck him in the back as he was cleaning his rifle while in the trenches.
His cousin Sgt John Robert Bannister 2 Scottish Rifles was KIA 26/3/15 and cousin 2/Lt Robert Smith RFA wounded.
Youngest brother Charles Clayton Smith RE and eldest brother Frank Smith S Lancs.

Harold Smith (4251) 2nd Bn, Border Regiment, listed on your site was my great uncle, he was killed in action 16 February 1915, and buried at the Rue-Petillon military cemetery in France, he was born in Burnley, and lived at 25 Brunswick Street with his wife and children, I have some newspaper cuttings of his death notice from his family given to me by my uncle.
He was one of three known sons (there maybe four) of Charles and Sarah Jane Smith (nee Clayton) also from Burnley, most of the information I have leads to the Smith family living in Burnley for many years as several are buried in Burnley Cemetery.
Frank Wilfred Smith (wife Polly) was a member of the R.A.O.B, Turf Moor and Stocks Massey Lodge, he held office at the North East Lancashire District Council to name a few things he did, he was buried in Burnley Cemetery in 1933.
(Frank and Polly's son Wilfred Smith is also buried in Burnley Cemetery in 1931)
It seems that most of the men in the family did a fair bit for the town of Burnley from the records I have been given.
Charles Clayton Smith who was my Great Grandad was born in Burnley, one of his sons, Charles Smith born in Burnley moved down to Plymouth.
From what I have been told, Charles Smith and his sons, Frank Wilfred, Harold and Charles Clayton all went to the great war.

(Courtesy of his great nephew Phil Smith)