COMMANDED 1/4 D.C.L.I.
IN BATTLE

DEATH OF LT. COL. STANLEY
SMITH

Many Cornishmen who served under
his command in the East throughout
the 1914—18 war learned with sorrow
of the death of Lt. Col. George Ed-
ward Stanley Smith, which occurred
on Friday at his home at Trevella, St.
Erme, at the age of 76.

Col. Smith was the eldest son of the
late Sir George Smith, of Trevu, Cam-
borne, and later of Treliske, Truro.   He
was educated at The Leys School,
Cambridge, and was for many years a
safety fuse expert with Messrs. Bick-
ford-Smith, Ltd., of Tuckingmill (now
a constituent company of Imperial
Chemical Industries Ltd.).

He was the distinguished son of a
distinguished father.   Sir George Smith
was for several years the commanding
officer of the 1st Volunteer Battalion
of the D.C.L.I, in which Col. Smith
was commissioned as a subaltern.   Col. 
Smith went to South Africa as one of
many Cornish volunteers and was
awarded the D.S.O.

When the Territorial Army was
formed by Lord Haldane the 1st and
2nd Volunteer Battalions became the
4th (West Cornwall) and 5th (East 
Cornwall) battalions,  and Col. Smith
was appointed Honorary Colonel of
the 4th.   At the outbreak of war in
1914 the two battalions were amalga-
mated as the 1/4 D.C.L.I. and Col.
Smith was in command until 1919 on
their service in India and Palestine,
and took part in every action in which
they were engaged.   He was twice
mentioned in despatches.

The number of Territorial battalions
was reduced after the war, and the 4th
and 5th D.C.L.I. were amalgamated
as the 4/5th.   The second World War
necessitated an expansion again, and
there was a reversion to two battalions.
Col, Smith was gazetted in 1940 as
Honorary Colonel of the 4th, the lineal
descendant of the old 1st Volunteer
Battalion of which his father had been
Honorary Colonel..

For several years Col, Smith was
Chairman of West Powder Petty Ses-
sional Bench, an office which his
father also had held, and for 25 years
he was, again as his father had been,
Chairman of the Governors of Truro
School.

In his younger days Col. Smith
plaved Rugby football and rode with
the Four Burrow Hounds.

He leaves a son, Mr. Derek Stanley
Smith, who lives in London: three
brothers, the Rev, Arscott Smith (Chi-
chester), Mr. L. W. B, Smith (St.
Erme) and Mr. H. L. Smith (Hading-
ley);  and three sisters,  Dr. Enid Smith
(Falmouth),  Miss Margaret Smith and
Miss Mabel Smith (Truro).