'Ron' Soldiered On Despite Family Loss ; Military Man Experienced Bitter-Sweet Life in Wwii: Military Man Ronald David Smith has Died, at the Age of 89.

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RONALD David Smith, known as Ron, was a man of many skills and talents, who began his military career as a dispatch rider with the Royal Signals during the Second World War.

Raised in Riverside, Cardiff, he suffered tragedy at a very young age when his father died with trench fever when he was only two weeks old. Ron's mother Beatrice was left alone to raise him and his brother Ken.

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'Ron' Soldiered On Despite Family Loss ; Military Man Experienced Bitter-Sweet Life in Wwii: Military Man Ronald David Smith has Died, at the Age of 89.

Times were hard and, in his mid-teens, Ron started work as a telegram delivery boy to help his mother, progressing to del...

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