Captain Albert Smith OBE, JP, DL (15 June 1867 – 7 April 1942)[1] was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician from Nelson in Lancashire.

[6] He was present at the Burnley 1914 FA Cup Final game as well as the post-game celebration dinner, giving a speech detailing how the day had gone after the match.

On 1 November 1914 he attended a meeting at Sabden with cross-party support, giving a speech that was reported on as follows:“They deplored from the bottom of their hearts that civilised nations had millions of men killing one another, and the only end to it could be suffering and distress.

In Belgium there were ruined homes, scattered families, wives separated from husbands, brothers from sisters, parents from children.

It was better to volunteer than to have conscription.”He arrived at Gallipoli on 13 May 1915 attached to the 1/7th Manchester Regiment, taking command of D Company from 17 June 1915, but was invalided out in late July 1915 due to dysentery and severe heat stroke (with the heat stroke being so severe that the ship returning him home was forced to leave him at Gibraltar), returning to service in 1917.

[8] He resigned from active military service in December 1917 due to his advancing age and the long term medical effects of his earlier illness.