SECOND LIEUTENANT ERIC HENRY SCOTT-SMITH
ROYAL ENGINEERS
9TH OCTOBER 1915 AGE 20
BURIED: PORTIANOS MILITARY CEMETERY, LEMNOS, GREECE
There is an enamel and brass memorial in Holy Trinity, Stratford-on-Avon in memory of the Revd Frank Smith's grandson, 2nd Lieutenant Eric Henry Scott-Smith. Educated at Clifton College and the Royal Military Academy Woolwich, Eric Scott-Smith was serving on Lemnos with the 14th Fortress Company, Royal Engineers when he died of dysentery. His personal inscription beautifully evokes the brief joy Eric brought into his father's life - "Like sunshine breaking through a cloud he came and went" - the memorial in Stratford church gives the factual details of his life and death:
In loving memory of
Eric Henry Scott-Smith
2nd Lt Royal Engineers only
Son of the Hon Mr Justice
Scott-Smith of Lahore
Born at Sialkot 16 Feb. 1895
Died at Mudros Bay 29 Oct. 1915
Of dysentery contracted in
The Dardanelles Campaign