b. 26/12/1872 Hasland, Derbyshire. d. ? 1946 Yorkshire.
DATE OF EM ACTION: 09/09/1919 Dinnington Main Colliery, Yorkshire.
Albert was the son of Edmund and Sarah Smith (nee Lunt) and was born on Boxing Day 1872 in Hasland, Derbyshire. He was baptised on the 19th January 1873 at St Mary and All Saints Church in Chesterfield. He had a younger brother and sister. He married Maud Ann Revill on his 27th birthday, 26th December 1899 in Hasland, and they had four children, two boys and two girls. Little else is known about his life after he had moved his family to Yorkshire to become a deputy at the Dinnington Main Colliery near Rotherham. By the time of the 1939 England and Wales Register he had retired as a colliery official and he and Maud were living in Kiveton Park in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He died in 1946, aged 74.
EM CITATION:
On the 9th September, 1919, whilst timber at the Dinnington Main Colliery was being drawn from a part of to be workings, a fall of material occurred which struck a man named James Sharpe and pinned him by one foot. Some workmen from adjoining places went at once to try to rescue him, but they were unable to get him away. The fall of material, had displaced some timber, and the ground was very unsettled. Albert E. Smith, one of the officials of the mine, quickly came to the spot, and seeing that Sharpe was in grave danger of being buried by the unsafe and unsupported roof, he arranged for a temporary chock to be set up. The chock had barely been erected when about two tons of material fell, which would but for the chock have killed Smith. The chock, however, protected him, and the men were able after the fall to continue the work for the liberation of Sharpe. Immediately afterwards the whole place collapsed.
BURIAL LOCATION: UNKNOWN.
LOCATION OF MEDAL: UNKNOWN.
