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British Army Service Records 1914-1920 Transcription

First name(s) Stewart
Last name Smith
Age 18
Birth year 1899
Birth town Truro
Birth county Cornwall
Service number 649696
Regiment Labour Corps
Unit / Battalion 296th Company
Year 1917
Residence town Sheffield
Residence county Yorkshire
Series WO 363
Archive The National Archives
Record set British Army Service Records

Father first stated to be Herbert Smith, 20 Alroyd? Road
Single (Unmarried)
Next of Kin: Father, Upperthorpe Sheffield
Allowance paid to Mrs L Smith, Upperthorp Sheffield

Do you have your parents marriage certificate? Does it say divorced or 'marriage dissolved' for your father?

1911:
1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription
102 Bingley Road Shipley, Shipley, Yorkshire, England

Herbert Smith Head Married Male Operating Dists 47 1864 Wiversted Essex
Lilie Smith Wife Married Female Royal London 46 1865 St Anthony Cornwell
Irene Smith Daughter Single Female Mutal Insurance Office 19 1892 Wimborne Dorset
Stewart Smith Son Single Male School Boy 11 1900 Truro Cornwall
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1939 register:

Botting Household (4 People) 45 Dimond Road , Southampton C.B., Hampshire, England

William F L Botting 30 Jun 1894 Male Railway Clerk Married
Elsie E Botting 11 Sep 1895 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Married
Peter Underwood 28 Dec 1899 Male Railway Construction Unemp & Maintenance Engineer Married
Audrey F N Vine (Underwood) 28 Jan 1912 Female Unpaid Domestic Dutie Married
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Death:
First name(s) PETER
Last name UNDERWOOD
Gender Male
Birth year 1900
Age 51
Death quarter 1
Death year 1951
District Surrey South Western
County Surrey
Volume 5G Page 1340
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Irene's death?
First name(s) IRENE COURTENAY
Last name SMITH
Gender Female
Birth day 24 April 1890
Death quarter 1
Death year 1988
District Louth
Register number 188
County Lincolnshire
Volume 7 Page 2084

1939
Biggin Household 99 Harcourt Road , Sheffield C.B., Yorkshire (West Riding), England

Tom Biggin 20 Feb 1865 Male Actor Retired Single
Closed Record
Clara A Hardcastle 30 Jul 1860 Female Retired Single
Closed Record
Eliza Smith 21 Jul 1861 Female No Occupation Widowed
Courtenay I Smith 24 Apr 1890 Male Artist Teacher Arts & Craft Single

Any connection...?

Marriages Sep 1939

Dyer Audrey F M..... Underwood..... Southampton 2c 256
Underwood Peter...... Dyer...... Southampton 2c 256

Do you know where your father died, as I can't see a death for him at around the time when you were 9.

Kath. x

Does anybody have any information on the descendants of Herbert Smith (b.1865) married to Lilie nee Courtenay-James (b.1867). They were my grandparents but I never met them. I am the only son of their son's (Stewart Underwood-Smith) second marriage, but there is a mystery surrounding his first marriage and I have absolutely no information about his first wife and my half-siblings.

So Herbert and Lilie had 2 Children; my aunt Irene Courtney-Smith (1890-1987) born in Wimborne, Dorset, and my father Stewart Underwood-Smith (1899-1950) born in Truro, Cornwall. As a family they appear in the 1901 census when they lived in Otley, West Yorks; then in 1911 living in Shipley, Yorks. My father died when I was 9 and I did know my Aunt Rene, his sister, but she would never speak about his "other" family, neither would my mother (Audrey nee Dyer).
Can anybody help please?

David Underwood (b. 1942)