Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Mark Holland Smith and his wife Sarah. The 1911 census records for 7, Northampton Road, Little Bowden, Leics. Mark Holland Smith, head of the family and married for 30 years, a Carpenter, born 1858 in Leicester and his wife Sarah, born 1856 in Heyford, Northants., also John Arthur, son, single and a Skins Shaver, born 1886, Raymond Mark, son, single and a Corset Factory Oven Cooker Hand, born 1889, Frank, son, single and an Office Clerk, born 1890, Eleanor, daughter, single and an Office Clerk, born 1894 and Frederick Leonard, son and a Schoolboy, born 1899 all the children were born in Little Bowden, Leics.