Lieutenant Euan Lucie-Smith
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Article by Bill Hern and Steve Charlton
In November 2020 the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum (Warwickshire) paid £10,540 to secure a plaque commemorating the man believed to be the first British regiment officer from an ethnic background to die in World War 1. That man was Lieutenant Euan Lucie-Smith and this is his remarkable story.
Euan Lucie-Smith was born in St Andrew, Jamaica on 14 December 1889.