Memorial G.F. Marsden-Smedley

This monument is erected in memory of Second Lieutenant George Futvoye Marsden-Smedley.

On August 18, 1916, he led his platoon in the attack on Guillemont Station. Marsden-Smedley reportedly charged a German machine gun that was holding up the platoon. After shooting one of the German soldiers, he was shot by a German officer and fell on the parapet of the German trench.

His body was never found. The spot where this monument stands is the last place he was seen.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Koos Winkelman