Saving Private Smith: A real WWI soldier's story that beats any movie


“Don’t have boys because they’ll only grow up to be cannon fodder”: After one family lost five sons to war, a whole town and a queen saved their youngest soldier boy from also dying in the battlefields.

Saving Private Ryan became a Hollywood classic in 1998 with its heroic tale of how a WWII soldier was rescued from the front lines after losing three of his brothers in action. But the real-life story of British soldier Private Smith, brought home by royal request from the trenches of WWI following the deaths of his five brothers, puts the movie in the shade.

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