17th manchesters

[mack]

11236 ernest Smithson
enl 14-4-15
aged 19
18th manchesters,posted to 17th battalion 14-2-16
storeman at j.d paton[engineers]Manchester
10 lever place,hulme
12-6-16 sent to 96th field ambulance with trench foot
badly wounded in face at bernafay wood,captured at trones wood on 10-7-16,lost his left eye
sent to Gottingen
transferred to Switzerland and repatriated to the 1st London gen hospital at myatts park on 8-10-17,later transferred to 2nd western gen hospital Manchester on 10-12-17