Private Andrew Smart

Private Andrew Smart, 9th ( Service ) Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment. He died in France on 5th July 1916 of wounds received in action during the Battle of the Somme, aged,25. He was the son of Thomas and Jane Smart of Whitsun View, Wooler and is buried in Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-L’Abbe, Mericourt, Somme, France. He had taken part in the Battle of Loos and was later wounded by shrapnel in February 1916. Before enlisting in October 1914 he had been employed as a plasterer with Mr Thomas Smart of High Street, Wooler. His Headstone is inscribed ” His Life He Nobly Gave  But He Slumbers Now In A Soldier’s Grave “. The photographs show British troops on the Somme and the colour image shows a peaceful Somme landscape today with ” no gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now”.