Record Review Kenneth B.I. Smyth
Name: Kenneth B.I. Smyth
Army Number: 36876
Age: 38
Rank: 1/Lt.
Function: Commanding Officer Battalion
Platoon-Troop-Flight: Platoon-Troop-Flight unknown.
Company-Squadron: Company-Squadron unknown
Unit-Group: 10th Battalion 4th Parachute Brigade
Division-Transport: 1st Airborne Division
Regiment: Army Air Corps Parachute Regiment (South Wales Borderers)
Nationality: British
Geniology: Son of Charles Inman Smyth and Jessie Smyth. Husband of Elspeth Elizabeth Geddes Smyth, Farnham, Surrey, U.K.
Died when: 26-10-1944
Died where: Apeldoorn
Spot: Hospital
Decorations: Officer Of the Order of the British Empire
Grave number: 18-B-8
Burial location: Oosterbeek, War Cemetery, Netherlands
Graves Overview: Overview
Personal Notes: Lt. Colonel Smyth was wounded in the centre of Oosterbeek and died of his wounds in a hospital at Apeldoorn.


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