Photo: Brian Chandler
In Earsdon Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:
In
loving memory of
my dear wife
Isabella Nixon Smith
who died June 19th 1942 aged 76 years.
Also Selby dearly loved son of the above
killed in France Sept. 29th 1918 aged 28 years.
Also Lisle Smith beloved husband of the above
who died June 25th 1948 aged 83 years.
Colin Boyd has provided the following:
Selby was born on July 27th 1890. He was working as a grocer living with his father, Lisle at 37, Back Row, Cullercoats when he enlisted in the Royal Naval Division on January 14th 1915. This was later changed when he moved with his wife, Mary to 9, Laburnum Avenue, Whitley Bay.
He joined the Hawke Battalion on April 26th 1915 and was hospitalised with debility on October 2nd 1915.
After rejoining the Hawke Battalion on November 22nd 1915 he was hospitalised to the UK from France on April 6th 1917 suffering from Orchitis.
He rejoined the Hawke Battalion on November 20th 1917 and was invalided to the UK again on March 16th 1918 following a gas attack.
Selby rejoined the Hawke Battalion again on September 22nd 1918 and was killed in action on September 30th 1918.
Selby Adamson Smith is remembered in Cullercoats on C68.01 and in Tynemouth on T36.14
