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Edward Heslop Smith (17 May 1888-1963) was a Labour Party politician in the Poplar area. Born in Bromley St Leonard, he was the son of Edward and Sarah Ann Smith. His father was a boiler maker. In 1892 he began school at Bow High Street School. In 1903 he was taken on by the Great Western Railway as a van guard, stationed at Smithfield Station. During the First World War he served in the Middlesex Regiment, joining in 1915 and serving in France. He was promoted from private to corporal to sergeant reaching the rank of second lieutenant. He was discharged from the army in 1922.

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  • Edward Heslop Smith (17 May 1888-1963) was a Labour Party politician in the Poplar area. Born in Bromley St Leonard, he was the son of Edward and Sarah Ann Smith. His father was a boiler maker. In 1892 he began school at Bow High Street School. In 1903 he was taken on by the Great Western Railway as a van guard, stationed at Smithfield Station. During the First World War he served in the Middlesex Regiment, joining in 1915 and serving in France. He was promoted from private to corporal to sergeant reaching the rank of second lieutenant. He was discharged from the army in 1922.
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  • Edward Heslop Smith (17 May 1888-1963) was a Labour Party politician in the Poplar area. Born in Bromley St Leonard, he was the son of Edward and Sarah Ann Smith. His father was a boiler maker. In 1892 he began school at Bow High Street School. In 1903 he was taken on by the Great Western Railway as a van guard, stationed at Smithfield Station. During the First World War he served in the Middlesex Regiment, joining in 1915 and serving in France. He was promoted from private to corporal to sergeant reaching the rank of second lieutenant. He was discharged from the army in 1922. In 1919 he married Hilda Florence Williams in Bromley St Leonard Parish Church. A member of Poplar Borough Council, during the Second World War he was Chief ARP Warden of Poplar. He was awarded the George Medal for his actions on 29 December 1940. The citation for the award was as follows: A H.E. bomb wrecked a building and the main gas line was broken and ablaze, lighting up the sky and endangering the adjoining premises. It was not possible to turn off the gas from outside. Chief Warden Smith immediately climbed into the wreckage, removing fallen debris as he went. He ran the grave risk of being crushed beneath the parts of the roof and ceiling still crashing down, or of being trapped by the fire. Without regard for his personal safety he set to work to stem the flames and get the gas under control. After half an hour he succeeded. Smith's courage and self-sacrifice prevented a very serious spreading of the fire and saved the district from possible disaster He was appointed to the London County Council on 31 July 1945 to fill a wartime vacancy in the representation of Poplar, Bow and Bromley. He held the seat unopposed when elections resumed in 1946, and stood down at the 1949 county council election. He remained a member of Poplar Council, and was Mayor of Poplar for 1958-59.
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