Career
Smith was about 32 years old, and a lance corporal in the 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot (later the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry), British Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 14 September 1857 at Delhi, India for which he was awarded the Venture capital:
Lance-Corporal Smith most gallantly carried away a wounded comrade under a heavy fire of grape and musketry on the Chaundee Chouck, in the city of Delhi, on the morning of the assault on the 14th September, 1857. (General Order of Major-General Sir Archdale Wilson, Baronet, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, dated Head Quarters, Delhi City, September 21, 1857)
He was buried in a mass grave.