Enlisted at Hounslow on the 29th of September 1852.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: None shown.
From Private to Corporal 11th of August 1854.
Killed in action at Balaclava.
1491 Albert Mitchell states in his "Recollections" that:"[A] Corporal riding on my right was struck by a shot or shell full in the face, completely smashing it — the blood and brains bespattered us who rode near."
The Regimental History notes: "This has now been ascertained to have been Corporal E. W. Aubrey Smith."
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava and Sebastopol.
Killed in action at Balaclava.
According to Lummis and Wynn, he was the son of a Major Smith, and a memorial plaque is supposed to have been erected to him in a church at Hammersmith, London, on the 11th of May 1911, but it has not been possible to confirm this.