Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 06/03/1916
- Date of Discharge
- 23/11/1917
- Place of Enlistment
- Bathurst NSW
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Place of Birth
- Halifax, England
- Address (at enlistment)
- Duntroon ACT
- Occupation
- Iron turner
- Next of Kin
- R. Smith (father), Halifax, England
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 6356
- Final Rank
- Private
- Final Unit
- 1 Battalion AIF
Notes
Smith was an Englishman who, at the time he enlisted, had worked as a groom at the Royal Military College, Duntroon since 1911. He arrived in France with reinforcements for the 1st Battalion in April 1917 and saw action at the Second Battle of Bullecourt in May 1917 where he was wounded suffering a fractured cranium. After treatment in England he returned to Australia in September 1917 for discharge.
Description - height 5 feet 5¾ inches, weight 136 pounds, chest 34-36½ inches, fresh complexion, blue eyes, dark hair, Presbyterian.
Sources
Ross Howarth, 'Civilians employed at the Royal Military College of Australia, Duntroon, from 1911 to 1931', RMC Duntroon, November 2000
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)