| Regimental number | 3149 |
| Place of birth | Liverpool, New South Wales |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Occupation | Postal assistant |
| Address | Mosman, New South Wales |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 18 |
| Height | 5' 8.5" |
| Weight | 135 lbs |
| Next of kin | Father, T Smith, Bardwell Road, Mosman, New South Wales |
| Previous military service | Served in the Compulsory Military Training scheme. |
| Enlistment date | |
| Place of enlistment | Liverpool, New South Wales |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 13th Battalion, 10th Reinforcement |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/30/3 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A70 Ballarat on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Corporal |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 1st Divisional Signal Company |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 7), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 26 |
| Other details |
War service: Egypt, Western Front Transferred to 1st Artillery Brigade, Tel el Kebir, 10 March 1916. Proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 21 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, 27 March 1916. Appointed Acting Bombardier, 1 June 1916; promoted Temporary Bombardier, 7 June 1916. Wounded in action, 26 July 1916 (gun shot wound, cheek); admitted to 2nd Field Ambulance, 27 July 1916; transferred to 44th Casualty Clearing Station, 27 July 1916; rejoined unit, 8 August 1916. Promoted Corporal, 13 August 1916. taken on strength, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, 4 December 1916. On leave, 12 May 1917; rejoined unit from leave, 28 May 1917. Transferred to 1st Divisional Signal Company, 6 June 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 24 July 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |
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