Len Smith

Smith joined the City of London Regiment on his 23rd birthday in September 1914 and fought at Loos and Vimy Ridge before being drafted as an observer, and then as an accredited war artist. After a severe bout of trench fever he was transferred to the Royal Engineers Special Branch where he worked on various camouflage devices. After the war he worked as a commercial artist.He died aged 83 in 1974. His diary was discovered among family papers by his nephew David Mason.