Lieutenant Julian Missenden Smeathman

Royal Engineers

Killed in Action 24th October 1914

Son of Lovel and Frances Ann Smeathman, of South Hill, Hemel Hempstead, Herts. His brother Lieut. C. Smeathman also died the same day.

Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 9.

Julian Smeathman's name on the Menin Gate.

(Photo: Richard Grayson, 1st April 2014.)

A window in St Mary's, Hemel Hempstead, is dedicated to Julian and his brother Cecil.  Gazette coverage of their deaths is available here.

Window at St Mary's, Hemel Hempstead.  The inscription reads:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD IN EVER LOVING MEMORY OF LIEUT: JULIAN MISSENDEN SMEATHMAN, ROYAL ENGINEERS, WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION AT YPRES 24TH OCTOBER 1914, AGED 26 YEARS; AND LIEUT: CECIL SMEATHMAN, B.A., 1ST LEICESTERSHIRE REGIMENT, WHO DIED AT BAILLEUL OF WOUNDS RECEIVED IN ACTION, AGED 25 YEARS. “Lovely and pleasant in their lives and in their death they were not divided.”

(Photos: Richard Grayson, 2nd March 2014.)