Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Frederick Edgar SMITH DSO (1907)

King's Royal Rifle Corps
Born 28 April 1888 in East Lexham, Norfolk
Died on active service 25 June 1940, aged 52
Buried at sea, commemorated on a plaque in St Anne's Church, Westgate, Dunbar.

Herbert Smith was the son of Frederick Edgar Smith and Caroline Alice, née Dyball. He married The Honourable Moira Violet Maria, née Plunket, in January 1923 at St Mary’s Church, Denham, Buckinghamshire. They had one daughter, Fiona L Smith, born in 1923.
He was educated at Charterhouse School.

In August 1914 he was commissioned into the 2nd King's Royal Rifle Corps, and in 1917 was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and twice mentioned in despatches. He was also made a Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur.

After the First World War he continued to serve in the army until 1935; he rejoined at the outbreak of war in 1939 and was placed in command of the 165th Officer Cadets Training Unit, based at Castle Park Barracks in Dunbar, East Lothian. He died in the Craig-en-Gelt Hotel in Dunbar on 25 June 1940, and was buried at sea.