SAMUEL PERCY SMITH (1901-19076 : 27), Captain in the 5th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment, was the eldest son of Mr F S Wilson Smith, solicitor of Walsall.  On leaving the shool he went to Caius College, Cambridge, and there took degrees in Arts and Law, being admitted a solicitor in 1913.  Soon after the outbreak of war he joined the Public School Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers and received a commission in January 1915.  In July 1916, he became acting Captain and in December reached substantive rank.  He had been wounded twice, and he was killed on February 28th 1917, by a shell from a trench mortar which burst close to him while he was digging out others buried by an earlier shell.  As a company commander he had given proof of exceptional pluck and untiring energy, together with an extraordinary solicitude for the welfare of his men.  He is remembered among us as a sincere and large-hearted friend, a dashing inside left at football and a Captain of cricket who often batted extremely well.  At the University and subsequently his reputation in both cricket and football was considerably enlarged.