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Christopher Smart Jr.

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Christopher Smart Jr. Veteran

Birth
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Death
19 Sep 1918 (aged 25)
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA Add to Map
Plot
Proprietors 143 F
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Seaman Christopher Smart, Jr, USN was the son of Christopher Smart, Sr and Bertha S Rand and brother of Roland Smart and Mrs Arthur (Bertha) Sawyer.

He grew up in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and worked as a chauffeur and for a short time was a clerk in the market of John Holland.

On 10 July 1910 he married Blanche M. Woods and they had a son Bradleigh Goodwin Smart who was born in 1914.

On 13 November 1915, he was appointed as a driver of the Portsmouth Police patrol wagon and later was transferred as patrolman.
He resigned from the police force to enter the service to his country. He enlisted in the reserve corps in February 1918 and was assigned to the training camp at Hingham, later then was transferred to Bumpkin Island and from there to the Commonwealth Pier all in Massachusetts.

His death, during the second wave of the pandemic, followed an illness of 6 days from the Spanish Influenza which exacerbated into lobar pneumonia for 3 days before he died at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Seaman Christopher Smart, Jr, USN was the son of Christopher Smart, Sr and Bertha S Rand and brother of Roland Smart and Mrs Arthur (Bertha) Sawyer.

He grew up in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and worked as a chauffeur and for a short time was a clerk in the market of John Holland.

On 10 July 1910 he married Blanche M. Woods and they had a son Bradleigh Goodwin Smart who was born in 1914.

On 13 November 1915, he was appointed as a driver of the Portsmouth Police patrol wagon and later was transferred as patrolman.
He resigned from the police force to enter the service to his country. He enlisted in the reserve corps in February 1918 and was assigned to the training camp at Hingham, later then was transferred to Bumpkin Island and from there to the Commonwealth Pier all in Massachusetts.

His death, during the second wave of the pandemic, followed an illness of 6 days from the Spanish Influenza which exacerbated into lobar pneumonia for 3 days before he died at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.


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