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VC521 Clement Leslie Smith
BORN 17 January 1878
DIED 14 December 1927 AGE 49
VC Won 10 January 1904 AGE 25
Place VC Won Jidballi
War/Campaign Somaliland
Name Clement Leslie Smith No.
VC Issue No. 521 Awards VC MC
Regiment Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry attached to the Somaliland Mounted Infantry
Later The Light Infantry
Now 3rd and 5th Battalions The Rifles
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Brigadier-General
Place Of Birth Whippingham, near East Cowes, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England
Place Of Death Alassio, Italy
Buried/Location Ashes Orario Cimitero Capoluogo, Campo Inglese, Alassio, Italy
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 7 June 1904
VC Presented 5 July 1904, King Edward VII
Memorials
P Headstone, Orario Cimitero Capoluogo, Campo Inglese, Alassio, Italy
By The Way…
In the 1st World War he was in command of The Imperial Camel Brigade
VC Held By
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Museum, The Keep, Bodmin, Cornwall, England
