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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16462, 14 June 1919, Page 4

A boy soldier who was discharged from the army at Woking, Surrey, recently (states a London paper) is the solo survivor of the family of ten, nine of whom perished at the hands of the enemy. Ho is Private Thomas William Smith, and though only eighteen years of age, ha has had the distressing experience of losing his father, mother, four brothers, and three sisters. The youth, whose family belonged to Croydon, was exactly thirteen years and eleven months old when he enlisted, and spent over throe years in France. His father and four brothers wore all killed on the same day—July 15, 19X(i' —in the first advance at the battle of the Somme. The eldest son was only 22. The youth’s three sisters were all killed in air rands, while his mother was the victim in a raid in the East End in 1917. After influenza take Blood Cherries obtainable from the Davies Pharmacies.