Family tree Smith » Alexander Joseph "Alex" Smith (1921-1944)
Personal data Alexander Joseph "Alex" Smith
- Nickname is Alex.
- He was born on May 9, 1921 in Meester Cornelis.Source 1
- Profession: vlieger.
Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie, Database Vliegend Personeel
Oorlogsvliegers in dienst van de Royal Air Force (RAF) en Fleet Air Arm (FAA), 1940-1945, Den Haag, archief 726, inventarisnummer 1224
Functievlieger-waarnemer
KM-deelKM
FAA-signatuur1840
HerkomstNO-Indië - Religion: Prot.
- Resident:
- until July 22, 1930: Meester Cornelis.
- from July 22, 1930 till May 7, 1931: Den Haag.
- starting May 7, 1931: Djatinegara Bekasi Timur IV30, Bandoeng.Source 2
- He died on March 15, 1944 in Appleton, he was 22 years old.Source 3
- He is buried in Appleton, Thorn, Cheshire, England.
- A child of Harry Edward Smith and Louisa Titia Guntenspergen
- This information was last updated on November 11, 2023.
Household of Alexander Joseph "Alex" Smith
He is married to A.S. Tullos.
They got married before 1944.Source 4
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Birthday May 9, 1921
- The temperature on May 9, 1921 was between 6.2 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
- March 8 » Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
- March 21 » The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of war communism.
- June 15 » Bessie Coleman earns her pilot's license, becoming the first female pilot of African-American descent.
- July 22 » Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of Spanish Morocco.
- October 21 » President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.
- December 6 » The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.
Day of death March 15, 1944
- The temperature on March 15, 1944 was between -0.3 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1944: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
- January 31 » World War II: During the Anzio campaign, the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
- March 10 » Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.
- April 22 » World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack the German Bassgeiger weather station.
- July 9 » World War II: Continuation War: Finland wins the Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in northern Europe. The Red Army withdraws its troops from Ihantala and digs into a defensive position, thus ending the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive.
- September 6 » World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.
- September 8 » World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
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