Carleton Rode First World War Archive
Following the digitisation of the Absent Voters Lists for 1918-1921, we were finally able to track down one of the men on our Roll of Honour board for whom we only had a surname – Gerard Philip Chapman – and we are very grateful to Paul Gardner and his wife for sharing the family photos reproduced here. ‘Phil’ as he was known to …
Charles Edward Smith was the third son of Jonah and Lucy Smith, born on the 18th November 1895 in Kentish Town, London. (An account of the family’s colourful history from Carleton Rode to London and back again can be read on his oldest brother’s page – Percy J R Smith.) After his mother died in the spring of 1899, the widowed Jonah and …
