Sergeant Frederick Fieldhouse Smith
59th Sqdn. Royal Air Force
28/04/1918
Born at Bristol
Died, aged 20 years
Elizabeth College, Guernsey. Roll no. 3174
Royal Aero Club certificate no.4077 5/01/1917
It was Baron Manfred von Richthofen's
protégé, German Ace Karl Allmenröder,
who brought down the plane in which Frederick was
Observer.
It crashed behind enemy lines on 25 April 1917 and
he was taken as a Prisoner of War to Rennbahn in
Germany. He died of heart failure in hospital in
Munster a year later aged 20 and is buried in Cologne
Southern Cemetery. |
Commonwealth
War Graves Commission Record
