Colonel Sydney Ernest Smith CBE (24 April 1881 – 11 June 1943) was an English pioneer aviator, soldier, airman and company director.
[1] In the 1901 Census of Bristol he was living with his widowed mother and was described as a Civil Engineer with Tramway Company.
On 22 November 1910 Smith, flying a Bristol Boxkite at Brooklands, was awarded the 33rd Royal Aero Club aviators certificate.
[1] During the First World War Smith re-joined his old battalion with the rank of major and by 1915 he was attached to the Royal Flying Corps and later the Royal Air Force retiring with the rank of colonel.
[1] Smith died at the Bristol Royal Infirmary on 11 June 1943.