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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Smith, Frederick Edwin
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Description area
Dates of existence
1887-1978
History
Frederick Edwin Smith was born August 28, 1887 in Dorsetshire, England. After emigrating to Canada in 1907, he worked as a farmer before enlisting with the First Canadian Pioneers at Moosomin, Saskatchewan in December of 1914. He served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force until the end of the war and was discharged by reason of demobilization on April 3, 1919. Following the war, Smith continued farming in the Rocanville area of Saskatchewan until his death in 1978.