Private Richard Smithies
241858 1/5th East Lancashire Regiment
Missing in Action 6th August 1917, aged 23
Lived at 25 Cresham Place
Later 20 Albany Terrace
Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium
Burnley Express 3/11/1917 (P) 7/11/1917 (P) 16/11/1917