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The Roll lists his address as Barclay's Bank, Church Street.
(CWGC records that Lieutenant C D Smith died on 23/10/1918 serving in the 5th Battalion Norfolk Regiment, attached to the 9th Battalion, and is now buried in grave IV.D.7 in the Highland Cemetery at Le Cateau, France, having been reinterred after the War. The Army registers of Soldiers' Effects record him as 2nd Lieutenant C D Smith, as does Soldiers Died in the Great War. His Medal Index Card records him as a Lieutenant, recording that he was initially a Lance Serjeant in the Norfolk Yeomanry under regimental number 1057, then a Private (Acting Corporal) under regimental number 14010. It also records that he was posted to the Balkans on 8/10/1915, before obtaining his commission on 28/2/1917 and joining the Norfolk Regiment as a Lieutenant; the correspondence address on the Medal Index Card was his widow, who had remarried: Mrs Cook, Box 472, Fillmore, California, USA. Clifford Day Smith's address for Probate was Whittlesey, Cambs; his widow Katie Smith administered his estate. The marriage of Clifford D Smith to Katie Armstrong was registered in the Wisbech District in 1917. On the 1911 census Clifford had been lodging at 14 North Street, Peterborough, working as a bank clerk; his age was recorded as 20 and his place of birth was given as Swaffham, Norfolk. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents Walter and Eleanor Smith at Swaffham. When he was baptised at Swaffham on 30/7/1890 his date of birth was recorded as 12/6/1890).