Corporal William Baxter Smart
4th Battalion, Canadian Mounted
Rifles, Canadian Expeditionary Force
(Formerly 10 years in the Yorkshire Light Infantry)
Born in 1872 at St Peter Port, Guernsey. The son of
Thomas Baxter and Catherine Smart. Husband of Ruth Baxter
Smart (née Hunt)
Father of Private William
Thomas Baxter Smart
He enlisted in 1916 and was demobilised in 1919.
He died at 6 April 1943 at Kirkland Lake, 1654338,
Ontario, Canada
![](pix/smart-wb-grave.jpg)
Family grave at Kirkland Lake Cemetery, Timiskaming,
Ontario
Census and military records give his date of birth
as 1872 & 1873