Cyril Smith (footballer)
Cyril C. Smith was a Welsh professional football inside left who played in the Football League for Charlton Athletic. Personal life. Smith served in the Royal Welch Fusiliers until 1913 and served as a private in the Middlesex Regiment's 1st Football Battalion during the early years of the First World War. He was gassed at Delville Wood during the Battle of the Somme and was evacuated to a hospital in Liverpool. Smith ended the war as a private in the Royal Army Medical Corps.