Philip Smallwood
1947 "The new President of the London Master Builders' Association is a director of Fredk. Smith and Co (Builders), Ltd., a firm which was established in the City of London considerably more than 100 years ago. A member of an old Yorkshire family, he was educated at 'Friends' School, Ackworth, and on leaving went into his father's business. He spent his first fifteen months on the first wholly reinforced concrete building to be erected in the borough of St. Marylebone. Mr. Smallwood obtained his technical education at the Borough Polytechnic and the City of London School of Building, January, 1915, saw him in France with the Friends' War Victims Relief Committee. Later, he served with the Serbian Relief Fund in Corsica. He then joined the R.N.A.S. and spent the remainder of the war as a pilot on coastal patrol. In the last war Mr. Smallwood joined the L.D.V. on its formation, becoming battalion weapon training officer of the 57th Kent. Home Guard. He acted as liaison officer for the L.M.B.A. when the Emergency Works Organisation was being formulated, and later became local organiser for the City of London when the W.B.E.O.s were established."[1]
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- ↑ The Illustrated Carpenter and Builder 7th March 1947.