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Smith, Robert Wray
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Robert Wray Smith, [ca.1892]-?, was born in England. He was a member of one of the organizations which eventually amalgamated to become the Boy Scouts. During the First World War Sergeant Smith was a stretcher-bearer with the 1st Northumbrian Field Ambulance, a unit of the 50th Division of the British Expeditionary Force. He saw action at the Somme and Passchendaele, and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal and Military Medal with bar. After the war he married and was active in a veterans' organization, the Legion of Frontiersmen.