Albert Smith b abt.1890 d. between 1917 - 1921

[rosie99]

but his Dad was also an Agricultural Labourer

Marriage certificates are often unreliable, he may have given the information about his father to cover his illegitimacy 

[LizzieL]

if he was in the army during WW1 and was killed in action he might be listed on the Registers of Soldiers effect.

[Samc1966]

Hi Lizzie

I have never heard of that register before - does it include all life losses during ww1 and do we know whether any of it was destroyed?

I will take the time next week to search it anyway, as his widow should be the recipient of anything he owned I guess.

Thank you! 

[LizzieL]

The register is on Ancestry

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=60506

When I had a sub for Ancestry I found a few people, but I don't know how comprehensive it is. The records I found were the records of pay owing to deceased soldiers collected by next of kin. Some were some time after the event. But that was probably because they were first posted as missing believed KIA and no bodies ever recovered, so I expect they had to wait some time to be sure that had died.