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Born in Lyndhurst, Hampshire, on 9 January 1913, the 3rd son of Thomas Edward Smith, a company director, of Lyndhurst and educated at Charterhouse, Surrey (1927-1931), he achieved a 2nd class degree in Jurisprudence at Corpus in 1934. He read for the Bar in 1934-1935 but then decided on a military career, enlisting in the RAF in 1936. He married Esmé Doris, daughter of Captain Cecil Sutton, in 1939 and rose from a Pilot Officer to Wing Commander in Bomber Command, taking part in bombing raids on Germany (including the first of the war) and convoy escorts. He was posted missing on 10 April 1943 and later declared killed in action (aged 30).