F/Officer Smith was serving with 263 Squadron. He was flying Metor III EE343 on a mission from RAF Manston to Eindhoven but the aircraft went missing for reasons which have never been resolved.
Final Landings – A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946-1949; Colin Cummings; Nimbus Publishing; ISBN 0 9526619 4 2
He is remembered in Birtley on B127.01
